Prosthesis-Related Infections

"Prosthesis-Related Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Infections resulting from the implantation of prosthetic devices. The infections may be acquired from intraoperative contamination (early) or hematogenously acquired from other sites (late).


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Bar chart showing 56 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2009
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