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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Post-Discectomy Infection: A Critical Review and Suggestion of a Management Algorithm.

Constantinos Chaniotakis, Christos Koutserimpas, Andreas G Tsantes, Dimitrios V Papadopoulos, Christothea-Alexandra Tsiridis, Apostolos Karantanas, Kalliopi Alpantaki, Alexander Hadjipavlou

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Case of osteomyelitis caused bySurgical neurology international · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Constantinos ChaniotakisDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, "Venizeleion" General Hospital of Heraklion, 71409 Crete, Greece.
Christos KoutserimpasDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, "251" Hellenic Air Force General Hospital of Athens, 11525 Athens, Greece.
Andreas G TsantesLaboratory of Haematology and Blood Bank Unit, Attikon Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3695-0759
Dimitrios V PapadopoulosSecond Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 14233 Athens, Greece.
Christothea-Alexandra TsiridisDepartment of Medicine, St. George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK.
Apostolos KarantanasDepartment of Medical Imaging, University Hospital, 71110 Heraklion, Greece.
Kalliopi AlpantakiDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, "Venizeleion" General Hospital of Heraklion, 71409 Crete, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0185-8474
Alexander HadjipavlouDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postoperative discitis (POD) accounts for 20% to 30% of all cases of pyogenic spondylodiscitis, while POD may be mis-or-under-diagnosed, due to the vague related symptomatology and the non-specific imaging findings. Most studies report infection rate of less than 1%, which increases with the addition of non-instrumented fusion to 2.4% to 6.2%. It remains controversial whether POD is caused by an aseptic or infectious process. Positive cultures are presented only in 42-73% of patients with

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osseous infectionspost-discectomy complicationsspinal infectionspine surgerytreatment algorithm

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PMID38592315
PMCPMC10935210

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