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ArticleJournal of bone and joint infection2018

Accuracy of Tissue and Sonication Fluid Sampling for the Diagnosis of Fracture-Related Infection: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.

Jolien Onsea, Melissa Depypere, Geertje Govaert, Richard Kuehl, Thomas Vandendriessche, Mario Morgenstern, Martin McNally, Andrej Trampuz, Willem-Jan Metsemakers

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Article in Journal of bone and joint infection, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. New insights in lower limb reconstruction strategies.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2023
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  15. Current Concepts of Fracture-Related Infection.International journal of clinical practice · 2023
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  16. Fracture-related infection.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022
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  19. Diagnosing Fracture-Related Infections: Where Are We Now?Journal of clinical microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jolien OnseaDepartment of Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
Melissa DepypereDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
Geertje GovaertDepartment of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Richard KuehlDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland.
Thomas VandendriesscheKU Leuven Libraries - 2Bergen - Learning Centre Désiré Collen, Leuven, Belgium.
Mario MorgensternDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Martin McNallyThe Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Andrej TrampuzCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery.
Willem-Jan MetsemakersDepartment of Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

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diagnosisFracture-related infectionhistopathologysonicationsystematic reviewtissue sampling

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PMID30155402
PMCPMC6098816

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