Is There a Difference in Outcome of Conversion Total Joint Arthroplasty When Staged Versus Concurrent Hardware Removal Is Performed?

Affiliations

• ¹ Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ² Corporate Chief Medical Officer and Staff Member Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogota and Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
• ³ Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy; Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Roma, Italy.
• ⁴ Clínica san Bernardo, Lima, Perú.
• ⁵ Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁶ International Joint Center, University of Acibadem, Istanbul, Turkey.