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Risk Factors for Wound Infections after Deformity Correction Surgery in Neuromuscular Scoliosis

M. Burhan Janjua, Brandon J. Toll, Shashank Ghandi, Michael Sebert, Dale M. Swift, Joshua M. Pahys, Amer F. Samdani, Steven W. Hwang

Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2019 · 14 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Our data suggest that in the pediatric population treated surgically for NMS, wound infection is strongly associated with postoperative increase in body weight, residual lumbar lordosis, pulmonary comorbidity, history of myelomeningocele repair, seizures, and previous operations.

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