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Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Vol 80, Issue 7 354-359, Copyright © 1990 by American Podiatric Medical Association

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Development and application of antibiotic-loaded bone cement beads

DE Stabile and AM Jacobs
Deaconess Hospital, St. Louis, MO.

The authors presented an overview of the development of antibiotic-loaded bone cement beads and their indications for usage, method of application, advantages, disadvantages, and causes of failure. This method of treatment for bone and soft tissue infections of the foot is not a panacea and should be used only in selected cases. The vascular status and the physiologic ability of the patient to heal a peripheral wound or infection are the basis for the success of this method of therapy. European literature makes little mention of adjunctive systemic antibiotic therapy with local antibiotic-loaded bone cement bead use. It is the authors' opinion that clinical judgment should be used to determine the necessity for such therapy.




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