“…An exception is Fountain's series, in which posterior instrumentation was used in the management of infectious vertebral lesion [23]. Even the importance of immobilization for the suppression of infection have been emphasized by several researchers [10,25], but it was not until the 1990s of the last century, internal fixation started gaining some acceptance in reconstructive surgery performed in the setting of active infection, and more and more surgeons reported their series of surgical treatment of spinal infections with excellent results [12, 13, 15-17, 21, 22, 25, 28, 32, 36, 44, 47, 49, 55-57, 65, 66]. Surgical intervention with instrumentation can relieve pain, improve sagittal balance and neurologic function, and finally result in early ambulation.…”