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The efficacy of vancomycin powder in total knee arthroplasty

A single-center study

Wazzan S. Aljuhani, Abdullah M. Alanazi, Mohammad A. Alghafees, Sondos H. Sagor and Ali A. Alhandi
Saudi Medical Journal May 2021, 42 (5) 550-554; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20210022
Wazzan S. Aljuhani
From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abdullah M. Alanazi
From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Mohammad A. Alghafees
From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Sondos H. Sagor
From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ali A. Alhandi
From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 5 550-554
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20210022
PubMed 
33896785

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 28, 2020
  • Accepted March 15, 2021
  • Published online April 25, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Wazzan S. Aljuhani, MD, FRCSC,
  2. Abdullah M. Alanazi, MBBS,
  3. Mohammad A. Alghafees, MBBS⇑,
  4. Sondos H. Sagor, BA and
  5. Ali A. Alhandi, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Surgery (Aljuhani, Alhandi), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; from King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees); from the College of Medicine (Aljuhani, Alanazi, Alghafees), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and from the Department of Biostatistics (Sagor), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammad A. Alghafees, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Alghafees687{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-9578
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