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Sonication: A Valuable Technique for Diagnosis and Treatment of Periprosthetic Joint Infections

Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos, Ioannis Stathopoulos, G. P. Morassi, S. Koufos, Abdulrahman Albarni, Panagiotis Karampinas, Antonios Stylianakis, Sandro Kohl, Spyros G Pneumaticos, John Vlamis

The Scientific World JOURNAL · 2013 · 43 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Sonication fluid cultures represent a cheap, easy, accurate, and sensitive diagnostic modality demonstrating increased sensitivity compared to periprosthetic tissue cultures (70.5 versus 47.1%).

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