“…After a surgical debridement and subsequent 4 weeks of intravenous antibiotic therapy, the patients underwent autogenous bone grafting and anterior plating. Since then, several series have been presented with patients undergoing anterior corpectomy and plate fixation [10,15,24,30,37,38,44,48,51], but the number of patients enrolled in these studies was relatively small and most of them were cervical cases.…”