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Risk factors for revision surgery due to construct failure after instrumented treatment of pyogenic spondylodiscitis

Bilal Younes, Dorothee Mielke, Charlotte Flüh, Veit Rohde, and Tammam Abboud · 2026

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Section 06 of 12

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Materials and methods
  3. 03Results
  4. 04Discussion
  5. 05Conclusion
  6. 06Ethics approval and consent to participate:
  7. 07Clinical trial number:
  8. 08Availability of data and materials
  9. 09Consent for publication:
  10. 10Authors' contributions
  11. 11Funding:
  12. 12Declaration of competing interests
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Work overview

Section 6 of 12

Ethics approval and consent to participate:

Bilal Younes, Dorothee Mielke, Charlotte Flüh, Veit Rohde, and Tammam Abboud · about 1 minutes

This retrospective chart review study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Human Investigation Committee (IRB) of University Hospital Göttingen, application number: 3/12/17 approved this study. All procedures adhered to local and institutional laws and data protection regulations. Informed consent was not required as the study was retrospective in nature and involved the analysis of previously collected data.