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Dragan Djurdjevic

If there are enough evidence to support it, the term should be "implant related infection".

Milan Samardziski

I strongly agree vith Dr. Djurdjevic that the best term is "implant releated infection". It gives some explanation of the etiology of the supossed infection...

Panayot Tanchev

Thank you, dear colleagues for your answers. "Implant related infection" seems to be reasonable.

Abolfazl Rimizadeh

No. I think it is better to be designated as post instrumentation infection . Actually,the implants nowadays are titanium and the not cause of infection,In many instances we can preserve the implant and solve the infection appropriately. without hardware removal.

Thank you, Dr. Rahimizadeh, for your interesting answeer ?