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Old 09-28-2009, 06:57 PM
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Sahuaro, having been involved in over 500 cases now, I've seen way too much of the "less than 1% chance" types of problems.

I've only seen one other case of osteomyelitis and it came associated with discitis... an infection of the disc following a minimally invasive procedure. That case followed a typical pattern that included obvious infection parameters and very extreme pain just a few weeks after surgery.
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