The study demonstrated that the thickness of subcutaneous fat at the surgical site is a factor in the development of surgical site infection following cervical spine fusion and deserves assessment in the preoperative evaluation.
Our findings suggest that in obese patients, the distribution of body mass is more predictive of SSI than the absolute BMI and deserves attention in preoperative evaluation.
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