Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.30088
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.30088
Original full-length article
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16 Mar 2019
Original full-length article |  | 16 Mar 2019

Fever and Erythema are Specific Findings in Detecting Infection Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Noam Shohat, Karan Goswami, Timothy L Tan, Brian Henstenburg, Gabriel Makar, Alexander J Rondon, and Javad Parvizi

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