Preventing infection in reverse shoulder arthroplasty

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This series of articles was created with the support of the following specialists (in alphabetical order):
Ashish Gupta

Ashish Gupta

Queensland Orthopedic Clinic
Brisbane, Australia

Simon Lambert

Simon Lambert

AO Recon Shoulder Curriculum Taskforce
University College London Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Markus Scheibel

AO Recon Shoulder Curriculum Taskforce
Schulthess Clinic
Zurich, Switzerland

Jan-Philipp Imiolcyk

Jan-Philipp Imiolczyk

Charité—University Medicine
Berlin, Germany

The authors thank Antia Rodriguez-Villalon and Laura Kehoe, medical writers at AO Innovation Translation Center, Switzerland, for contributing to the writing and editing of the articles.

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