Abstract
The worldwide incidence of infection in knee and hip arthroplasty is estimated at between 0.3 and 1.9%, reaching in some studies, up to 5% of cases. For endoprosthesis after resection of bone tumors, the incidence is even higher. The relevance of studies on this issue is the growing number of such procedures worldwide and the consequent increase in the number of infected cases. In 2006 ar…