Do Extended Oral Postoperative Antibiotics Prevent Early Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty?

Carender CN, DeMik DE, Glass NA, Noiseux NO, Brown TS, Bedard NA. Do Extended Oral Postoperative Antibiotics Prevent Early Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty? J Arthroplasty. 2021 08; 36(8):2716-2721.

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