Two-Year Outcomes of Postoperative Spine Infection: Implant Retention and Predictors of Treatment Failure.

Open Forum Infect Dis · 2026 · PMC13187830 · PMID 42169690

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Lumbar surgery showed a trend toward higher odds of failure (OR 5.87; 95% CI, .93–72.1; P = .097) but this did not reach statistical significance.

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