Thirty-Day Mortality After Total Knee Arthroplasty
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 83 (8) , 1157-1161
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-200108000-00004
Abstract
Background:There have been sporadic reports on perioperative mortality associated with total knee arthroplasty. The purpose of this study was to determine risk factors for such mortality.Methods:A computer-assisted review of the records of 22,540 consecutive patients who had undergone total knee artKeywords
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