Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.30001
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.30001
Original full-length article
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16 Mar 2019
Original full-length article |  | 16 Mar 2019

Intraoperative Transfusion of Red Blood Cell Units Stored >14 Days is Associated with an Increased Risk of Prosthetic Joint Infection

Eduard Tornero, Arturo Pereira, Misericordia Basora, Luis Lozano, Laura Morata, Ernesto Muñoz-Mahamud, Andreu Combalia, and Alex Soriano

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