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X-ray films show no sign of migration, but a periprosthetic defect at the anterior cortex of left femur from lateral view (white arrow).
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X-rays and computerized tomography scans showed a defect in the anterior cortex of the left femur (Figure 1).
Coronal and horizontal plane of magnetic resonance T2-weighted images show effusion around the femur connected to subcutaneous tissue through an underlying tract.
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MRI showed effusion around the femur and a heterogeneous mass connected to the femur defect via an underlying tract (Figure 2).
A set of antibiotic-loaded articulate spacers that were implanted.
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We implanted an articulating antibiotic loaded bone cement spacer, containing 4g vancomycin per 40g cement (Figure 3).
Taxonomic classification of reads by bioinformatic analysis of sequenced data from preoperative synovial fluid (A), intraoperative synovial fluid (B) and sonicate fluid (C).
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The number of unique reads of P. micra was 30099 (90.8% of microbial reads) and coverage rate of P. micra was 46.08% in sonicate fluid (Figure 4).