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Abstract
Infections resulting from the implantation of prosthetic devices. The infections may be acquired from intraoperative contamination (early) or hematogenously acquired from other sites (late).
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- Infections, Prosthesis-Related
- Prosthesis Related Infection
- Prosthesis-Related Infection
- Infection, Prosthesis Related
- Prosthesis Related Infections
- Related Infection, Prosthesis
- Related Infections, Prosthesis
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coord IM with specific infect (IM) and specific prosthesis /adv eff (IM), as EYE, ARTIFICIAL /adv eff; infect by biofilm: coord IM with BIOFILMS (IM) but see note there
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- Infection (1966-1991)
- specific prosthesis/adverse effects (1966-1991)
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- National Library of Medicine. Prosthesis-Related Infections. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016459. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016459
- Prosthesis-Related Infections. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54973656