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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Fungal Prosthetic Joint Infection in Revised Knee Arthroplasty: An Orthopaedic Surgeon's Nightmare.

Christos Koutserimpas, Symeon Naoum, Kalliopi Alpantaki, Konstantinos Raptis, Konstantinos Dretakis, Georgia Vrioni, George Samonis

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Christos KoutserimpasDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, "251" Hellenic Air Force General Hospital of Athens, 11525 Athens, Greece.
Symeon NaoumDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, "251" Hellenic Air Force General Hospital of Athens, 11525 Athens, Greece.
Kalliopi AlpantakiDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, "Venizeleion" General Hospital of Heraklion, 714-09 Crete, Greece.
Konstantinos RaptisDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, "251" Hellenic Air Force General Hospital of Athens, 11525 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos Dretakis2nd Department of Orthopaedics, "Hygeia" General Hospital of Athens, 151-23 Marousi, Greece.
Georgia VrioniDepartment of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115-27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4766-8238
George SamonisDepartment of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, Greece.
Hellenic Air Force · GRHygeia Hospital · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRThe General Hospital of Heraklion "Venizeleio-Pananio" · GRUniversity of Crete · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal prosthetic joint infections (PJIs), despite the fact that they are rare, represent a devastating complication. Such infections in revised knee arthroplasties pose a unique surgical and medical challenge. A rare case of

Indexed as

Aspergillus knee infectionCandida knee infectionfungal osteoarticular infectionknee infection

Identifiers

PMID35885511
PMCPMC9315739
OpenAlexW4283750632

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