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Joint aspiration for diagnosis of chronic periprosthetic joint infection: when, how, and what tests?
Diagnosing chronic periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) requires clinical suspicion in combination with both serological and synovial fluid tests, the results of which are generally applied to validated scoring systems or consensus definitions for PJI ...
Nicole Durig Quinlan, Jason M. Jennings
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Hormone replacement therapy [PDF]
Martha Hickey, Jane Elliott, Sonia Louise ...
Davison, S., Elliott, C., Hickey, M.
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Material Characterization and Real-Time Wear Evaluation of Pistons and Cylinder Liners of the Tiger 131 Military Tank [PDF]
Material characterisation and wear evaluation of the original and replacement pistons and cylinder-liners of Tiger 131 is reported. Original piston and cylinder-liner were operative in the Tigers’ engine during WWII.
Adil Saeed+8 more
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Background and purpose — The accelerated wear of poorly functioning metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants may cause elevated whole-blood cobalt (Co) and chromium (Cr) levels.
Noora Honkasaari+4 more
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Background and aims The incidence of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is increasing, especially among younger working-age patients. However, dissatisfaction rates in this population are higher than among older patients.
Sanni Leppänen+3 more
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Faster Replacement Paths [PDF]
The replacement paths problem for directed graphs is to find for given nodes s and t and every edge e on the shortest path between them, the shortest path between s and t which avoids e.
Williams, Virginia Vassilevska
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Abstract A prototypical vintage capital model of economic growth is developed, where the decision to replace old technologies with new ones is modeled explicitly. Technological change is investment specific. Depreciation in this environment is an economic, not a physical, concept.
Cooley, Thomas F+2 more
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The following game in a similar formulation to Petri nets and chip-firing games is studied: Given a finite collection of baskets, each has an infinite number of balls of the same value. Initially, a ball from some basket is chosen to put on the table. Subsequently, in each step a ball from the table is chosen to be replaced by some $2$ balls from some ...
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Clinical outcomes of DAA and related techniques in hip arthroplasty
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) has been one of the most successful surgical interventions in recent memory and is nicknamed by some the “Surgery of the Century”.
Adam Driesman, Charlie C. Yang
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Background and purpose — There are no international guidelines to define adverse reaction to metal debris (ARMD). Muscle fatty atrophy has been reported to be common in patients with failing metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements.
Aleksi Reito+4 more
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