Closed wound drainage in total hip or total knee replacement. A prospective, randomized study.
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 76 (1) , 35-38
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199401000-00005
Abstract
We prospectively randomized 415 total joint replacements for either a closed wound-drainage system or no postoperative drainage. Drainage was not used in 200 total joint replacements, of which 138 were total knee replacements and sixty-two, total hip replacements. Drainage was used in 215 toKeywords
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