Table 3.

Summary of quoted literature (excluding literature analyses)

Study	Strategy	Number of patients	Mean followup	Infection healing rate (%)	Mean Knee Society knee score (points)	Mean Knee Society function score (points)
Bauer et al. [1]	1 stage	30	52 months	67	75.5	62.5
Buechel et al. [2]	1 stage	22	10.2 years	90.9	79.5
Göksan and Freeman [7]	1 stage	19	4.6 years	89
Lu et al. [16]	1 stage	8	20 months	100
Scott et al. [21]	1 stage	10		70
Von Foerster et al. [23]	1 stage	104	5–15 years	73
Bauer et al. [1]	2 stage with or without spacer	77	52 months	67	74.8	62.5
Cuckler [3]	2 stage with spacer	44	5.4 years	98
Scott et al. [21]	2 stage	7
Sherrell et al. [22]	2 stage (after failed débridement)	83	50 months	66
Westrich et al. [24]	2 stage with spacer	72	52.4 months	90.7	90.1	90.0