What is the Diagnostic Accuracy of Aspirations Performed on Hips With Antibiotic Cement Spacers?
CONCLUSIONS: Because the MSIS criteria thresholds resulted in suboptimal sensitivities owing to a higher number of false negatives, we recommend considering lower WBC count and PMN percentage thresholds for hip-spacer aspirations. Furthermore, the WBC count and PMN percentage results from aspirations performed with saline lavage are not reliable for treatment decisions.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, diagnostic study.
PMID: 27672013 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Newman JM, George J, Klika AK, Hatem SF, Barsoum WK, Trevor North W, Higuera CA Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research