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Surgical procedure. All infected and necrotic tissue including the infected intervertebral disc, adjacent end plates and vertebral body bone were resected. a The iliac bone graft was wedged into the defect to reconstruct the spine. b Instrumentation following bone grafting was made with a titanium plate fixed with four titanium screws
