The Mark Coventry Award: diagnosis of early postoperative TKA infection using synovial fluid analysis.

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Published in Clin Orthop Relat Res on January 01, 2011

Authors

Hany Bedair1, Nicholas Ting, Christina Jacovides, Arjun Saxena, Mario Moric, Javad Parvizi, Craig J Della Valle

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hbedair@gmail.com

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