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- Title
Complications associated to wound drainages in tumor spine surgery: a multicenter surveillance study from the German Spine Registry (DWG-Register).
- Authors
Walter, Sebastian G.; Lenz, Maximilian; Gaisendrees, Christopher; Schlachtenberger, Georg; Sircar, Krishnan; Knöll, Peter; DWG Registry Study Group; Siewe, Jan; Brenke, Christopher; Rommelspacher, Yorck; Shiban, Ehab; Bayerl, Simon; Mehren, Christoph; Vinas-Rios, Juan Manuel; Zarghooni, Kourosh
- Abstract
There is an ongoing debate whether a surgical drainage is beneficial to prevent local accumulation of hematoma and to reduce the rate of wound infections, and neurological deficits. Data from the German Spine Society (DWG) registry were filtered for surgically treated spine tumor cases between 2017 and 2021. Cases were categorized into with (Group I) and without (Group II) placement of a surgical drainage. Subgroups were compared for demographic data, type of surgery, experience of the surgeon and postoperative surgical complications. 10,029 cases were included into final analysis (Group I: 3007; Group II: 7022). There was no significant difference between both groups regarding age or gender distribution. Average morbidity of patients was significantly elevated in Group I (p < 0.05) and the rates of invasive surgery were significantly increased in this group (p < 0.001). Overall complication rates were reported with 12.0% (Group I) and 8.5% (Group II). There were significantly more epidural hematoma (p < 0.001) and motor dysfunction (p = 0.049) as well as deep wound infections (p < 0.001) and implant failures (p = 0.02) in Group I. A surgical wound drainage cannot prevent epidural hematoma.
- Subjects
TUMOR surgery; SPINAL surgery; SURGICAL drainage; EPIDURAL hematoma; SPINE
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-022-23579-x