# Surgical Lavage vs Serial Needle Aspiration for Infected Joints

> **NCT00313365** · PHASE3 · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **Emory University**

## Conditions studied

- Arthritis
- Septic

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Surgical Lavage (Arthrotomy)
- **PROCEDURE:** Arthrocentesis (Serial needle aspiration)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00313365
- **Lead sponsor:** Emory University
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2006-04
- **Primary completion:** 2013-07
- **Final completion:** 2013-07
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study was never started because Dr. Hammerberg left before it could be started.
- **Last updated:** 2013-09-24


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00313365

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00313365, "Surgical Lavage vs Serial Needle Aspiration for Infected Joints". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00313365. Licensed CC0.

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