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Symptoms are low grade fever, very sleepy all the time, randomly s.o.b, pain, swelling, and stiffness in left knee (replacement with popliteal cyst) ?
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R/O infection: Believe you need to see the surgeon that implanted your knee to rule out a low grade infected total knee.
Answered 5/27/2016
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