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A Comparison of Five Treatment Protocols for Contaminated Bone Grafts in Reference to Sterility and Cell Viability
2 Mar 2011
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Background: Occasionally, a bone graft or comminuted fracture fragment is dropped on the operating-room floor and becomes contaminated. The purpose of this study was to determine an optimal method for sterilizing this bone with the minimum sacrifice of cell viability. Methods: A set of discarded bone samples was taken from a series of twenty total knee arthroplasty operations. The bone samples were uniformly...
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