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Allergy to implants in lumbar screw fixation mimics postsurgical wound infection

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Wedau Kliniken, Zu den Rehwiesen 9, 47055, Duisburg, Germany

    Rashad El Habony, Yücel Binay, Athanasios K. Petridis & Martin Scholz

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Rashad El Habony and Yücel Binay contributed equally

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El Habony, R., Binay, Y., Petridis, A.K. et al. Allergy to implants in lumbar screw fixation mimics postsurgical wound infection. Acta Neurochir 154, 1821–1823 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-012-1466-2

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