Table 1.
Number of antibiotic pellets (Herafill®) within 5 defined regions (proximal (1), middle (2), distal (3), periprosthetic (4), control (5))(Fig. 5) of native and processed (thermodisinfected) cancellous bone divided up for the external (out) region and the center (in) of the impacted bone.
| Region | out | in | 1 | out | in | 2 | out | in | 3 | out | in | 4 | out | in | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native | 8,3 | 4,0 | 12,3 | 8,5 | 3,3 | 11,8 | 8,8 | 3,3 | 12,1 | 8,9 | 6,1 | 15,0 | 7,0 | 3,3 | 10,3 |
| Processed | 7,2 | 3,8 | 11,0 | 8,5 | 3,0 | 11,5 | 7,9 | 3,4 | 11,3 | 9,6 | 5,9 | 15,5 | 7,7 | 4,2 | 11,9 |