The diagnosis of peri-prosthetic infection may be difficult. But this diagnosis can guide antibiotic prophylaxis and implementation of intraoperative bacteriological samples. The hypothesis of this study was that a composite score using clinical, radiological and biological data could be used for positive and negative diagnostic of infection before reoperation on prosthetic hip or knee. 200 reoperations on hip and knee arthroplasty for any cause were analyzed retrospectively. 100 cases concerned infected cases, while the diagnosis of infection was excluded in the other 100 cases.INTRODUCTION
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