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Postoperative fever is associated with infections in elderly patients aged 80 years or older after femoral intertrochanteric fracture surgeries
2022-11-28
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Postoperative fever (POF) following orthopedic surgeries was generally secondary to inflammatory responses and most diagnostic tests were unnecessary according to previous reports. To our knowledge, there has been no literature discussing POF in elderly patients after femoral intertrochanteric fracture (ITF) surgeries. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of POF and the association b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2edb2f61-62f3-5f77-91f1-0d70c8cf28b3
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2299134/v1
