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CASE REPORT

Acupuncture needle-associated prosthetic knee infection after total knee arthroplasty

Arata NakajimaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, 564-1 Shimoshizu, Sakura, Chiba 285-8741, Japan;Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, Chiba, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ryutaku KaneyamaFunabashi Orthopaedic Hospital, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
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Hitoshi WatanabeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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Masazumi MurakamiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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Koichi NakagawaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, 564-1 Shimoshizu, Sakura, Chiba 285-8741, Japan
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Yasuchika AokiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, 564-1 Shimoshizu, Sakura, Chiba 285-8741, Japan
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Masashi YamazakiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
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Teruo FurufuDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, 564-1 Shimoshizu, Sakura, Chiba 285-8741, Japan
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Toru SuguroDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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Pages 627-631 | Received 11 May 2010, Accepted 14 Jun 2010, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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