Safety and Efficacy of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cages and Cadaveric Allografts in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for Treating Lumbar Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Organism</td><td class="align_center">Number of patients</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Staphylococcus aureus</td><td class="align_center">21</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus</td><td class="align_center">2</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Staphylococcus epidermidis</td><td class="align_center">6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Streptococcus suis</td><td class="align_center">1</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Escherichia coli</td><td class="align_center">1</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Acinetobacter baumannii</td><td class="align_center">1</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Corynebacterium</td><td class="align_center">1</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Not identified</td><td class="align_center">6</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Organisms from specimen culture findings.</div>

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Table 2: Safety and Efficacy of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cages and Cadaveric Allografts in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for Treating Lumbar Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis 

Table 2 | Safety and Efficacy of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cages and Cadaveric Allografts in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for Treating Lumbar Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis 