Alex Walinga

PhD Candidate - Orthopedic Surgery Amsterdam UMC

[Alex Walinga @Alex_Walinga]

NEW: Needle arthroscopy can be used as surgical treatment for bacterial arthritis under local anesthesia.
The surgical technique is published in Arthroscopy Techniques. @ArthroscopyJ @KerkhoffsG
(https://t.co/wCzuo8v1SD).

More to come!

[Arthroscopy Journal @ArthroscopyJ]

Open access technique! Needle Arthroscopy for Bacterial Arthritis of a Native Joint: Surgical Technique for the Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist, Knee, and Ankle under Local Anesthesia https://t.co/7BRfEVWGAn

[The Bone & Joint Journal @BoneJointJ]

Diagnosing bacterial arthritis of a native joint is often challenging due to overlapping of the symptoms with those of reactive arthritis, or inflammatory arthropathies like rheumatoid arthritis or gout.

@KerkhoffsG

https://t.co/6gwJ4230uk

#orthotwitter #arthritis