Predictive Factors of Surgical Site Infection in Prosthetic Joint Surgery: A Prospective Study on 760 Arthroplasties

Figure 2

Change in total leucocytes (a) and neutrophils (b) in the two groups between preoperative and discharge measurements. As shown in Figure 2(a), patients who would develop infection (Figure 2(a), no squares) had a more pronounced increase in total leukocytes than uninfected subjects (). This interaction still exists for neutrophil’s count,although it is less evident (Figure 2(b), .

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