Table 3. Wound leakage reported in patients with prosthetic joint infections in the selected studies.
Study Name | Prosthetic Joint infection | Hips (n) | Knees (n) | Leakage (Hips) | Leakage (Knees) |
Sandiford [17] | 29 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Kallala and Haddad [18] | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Kallala et al. [19] | 387 | 140 | 247 | Not specified in PJI (overall: 32 in 755) | |
McPherson et al. [20] | 126 | 50 | 76 | 2 | 0 |
Menon et al. [21] | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Lum et al. [22] | 14 | 6 | 9 | Not specified in PJI (overall: 1 in 56) | |
Agarwal et al. [23] | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |