prosthesis
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Introduction
A fabricated or manufactured substituted device for a damaged or missing part of the body.
Includes:
- prosthetic limb
- artificial joint from
- orthopedic internal fixation devices
- ocular prosthesis
- implants
Management
- prophylactic antibiotics (cefazolin or vancomycin) before high-risk procedures in patients with prosthetic joints[1]
More general terms
More specific terms
- artificial iris
- auricular prosthesis
- bionic pancreas
- endovascular prosthesis
- inflatable urethral/bladder neck sphincter
- intraurethral valve pump (inFlow)
- mandibular prosthesis
- maxillofacial prosthesis
- obturator prosthesis
- ocular prosthesis (artificial eye)
- oral prosthesis
- orbital prosthesis
- orthopedic fixation device
- penile prosthesis (penile implant)
- prosthetic joint
- prosthetic limb
- speech prosthesis
- vascular prosthesis