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01.11.2014 | Editor's Spotlight/Take 5
Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Diagnosing Periprosthetic Joint Infection: Has the Era of the Biomarker Arrived?
verfasst von:
Montri D. Wongworawat, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 11/2014
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Excerpt
In 2011, the Musculoskeletal Infection Society (MSIS) published a set of criteria defining the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) [
9]. The definition arose, in part, because there was no widely adopted gold standard for the diagnosis of PJI. This lack of consensus generated varying definitions of infection that yielded broad ranges of sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy [
8], as well as confusion, in the many published studies on the topic about what was (and what was not) a PJI. …