Incidence and predictors of positive intraoperative cultures in primary shoulder arthroplasty following prior ipsilateral shoulder surgery.

contamination, a risk factor that did not reach statistical significance in predicting culture positivity in our study. 5 In similarly conducted studies, Mook et al 21 reported a 20.5% rate of UPCs in primary open shoulder surgery and Sethi et al 29 reported a 56% rate of UPCs in primary shoulder arthroscopy.

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