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Difficult primary total knee arthroplasty requiring a varus–valgus constrained implant is at higher risk of periprosthetic infection

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-05866-0

Published Online: 2020-01-25

Published Print: 2020-12

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Authors

Costa, Giuseppe Gianluca https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4672-0778
Lo Presti, Mirco

Agrò, Giuseppe

Vasco, Cosimo

Cialdella, Sergio

Casali, Marco

Neri, Maria Pia

Grassi, Alberto

Zaffagnini, Stefano
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Article History

Received: 19 October 2019

Accepted: 17 January 2020

First Online: 25 January 2020

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: Giuseppe Gianluca Costa, Mirco Lo Presti and the other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Stefano Zaffagnini declare personal fees for consulting, outside the submitted study, from: De Puy, a Johnson & Johnson Company and Smith & Nephew.

: This study was conducted according the Helsinki Ethical Declaration; an informed consent was signed by each patient for the use and procession of personal details recorded in our institutional database at hospital admission. Because of the retrospective nature of the present study, ethical approval was not required, according to the institutional ethical criteria.