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Tissue adhesive for wound closure, as adjunct to staples, reduces postoperative wound drainage after total knee

C Dijkman1, A R Thomas2, L van Boekel3

  • 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands. casperdijkman@gmail.com.

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
|December 16, 2024
PubMed
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Keywords:
Tissue adhesiveTotal hip arthroplastyTotal knee arthroplastyUnicondylar knee arthroplastyWound drainage

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