Robert W Ike*
Volume2-Issue9
Dates: Received: 2021-09-13 | Accepted: 2021-09-24 | Published: 2021-09-29
Pages: 846-848
Abstract
Observations that some patients with knee arthritis feel better after a simple diagnostic arthroscopy date to the earliest days of American orthopedists using the procedure [1]. While arthroscopy was not widely employed for another half century, washout of the knee through an arthrotomy was among the procedures applied to osteoarthritis in the pre-total joint arthroplasty era [2].
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Ike RW. How to Wash Out a Knee. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2021 Sept 29; 2(9): 846-848. doi: 10.37871/jbres1320, Article ID: JBRES1320, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1320.pdf
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