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Patient outcome following removal of implants
| Asymptomatic | 16 |
| Residual back pain | 11 |
| Persisting spine infection | One sinus development in natal cleft where sacral instrumentation left in situ |
| Poor mobility and back pain as loss of correction following r/o metal ware | 2 |
| Asymptomatic back, persisting infection elsewhere | 2 |
| Improved back pain | 2 |
| Painful pseudarthrosis | 1 |
| Insufficient data | 39 |
