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Infection Knee Need to Know

No Surprise: Infection Biggest Culprit in Amputation for Failed TKA

December 15, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Of the hundreds of thousands of total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) performed annually around the world, very few result in failure so irreparable that transfemoral amputation

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