Is two-stage reimplantation effective for virulent pathogenic infection in a periprosthetic hip? A retrospective analysis
Yong-Cheol Yoon, Devendra Lakhotia, Jong-Keon Oh, Jun Gyu Moon, Kumar Prashant, Won Yong Shon
Yong-Cheol Yoon, Orthopedic Trauma Division, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon 405-760, South Korea
Devendra Lakhotia, Jong-Keon Oh, Jun Gyu Moon, Kumar Prashant, Won Yong Shon, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Guro Hospital, Seoul 152-703, South Korea
Author contributions: Yoon YC contributed to study design, data collection, data analysis, radiograph analysis, manuscript writing; Lakhotia D contributed to data analysis, radiograph analysis and manuscript writing; Oh JK, Moon JG and Prashant K contributed to data collection and data analysis; Shon WY contributed to performance of surgeries, study design, data analysis, radiograph analysis and manuscript writing.
Institutional review board statement: Our retrospective study contained data from medical records only and thus was conducted without IRB approval (a process requiring approximately 2 mo at our university).
Informed consent statement: Our retrospective study contained data from medical records.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. No benefits in any form have been received or will be received from any commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
Data sharing statement: The technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset are available from the corresponding author, Dr. Won Yong Shon, at shonwy@hotmail.com.
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Correspondence to: Won Yong Shon, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Guro Hospital, 97 Gurodong-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul 152-703, South Korea.
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Received: February 12, 2015
Peer-review started: February 13, 2015
First decision: June 9, 2015
Revised: July 27, 2015
Accepted: August 13, 2015
Article in press: August 14, 2015
Published online: October 18, 2015
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