Complications associated to wound drainages in tumor spine surgery: a multicenter surveillance study from the German Spine Registry (DWG-Register)

Abstract There is an ongoing debate whether a surgical drainage is beneficial to prevent local accumulation of hematoma and to reduce the rate of wound infections, and neurological deficits. Data from the German Spine Society (DWG) registry were filtered for surgically treated spine tumor cases betw...

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Main Authors: Sebastian G. Walter, Maximilian Lenz, Christopher Gaisendrees, Georg Schlachtenberger, Krishnan Sircar, Peter Knöll, DWG Registry Study Group, Kourosh Zarghooni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23579-x

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