===2015===
A patient with a history of L2 corpectomy and anterior spinal fusion presented with discitis at the L4/5 level and underwent an anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) supplemented with a locking plate placed anterolaterally for stability. Fifteen months after the ALIF procedure, he returned with a hardware infection. He underwent debridement of the infection site and removal of hardware. Results. Once hardware was exposed, removal of the locking plate screws was only successful in one out of four screws using a reverse thread screw removal device. Three of the reverse thread screw removal devices broke in attempt to remove the subsequent screws. A metal cutting drill was then used to break hoop stresses associated with the locking device and the plate was removed. Conclusion. Anterior locking plates add significant stability to an anterior spinal fusion mass. However, removal of this hardware can be complicated by the inherent properties of the design with significant risk of major vascular injury
((Crawford B, Lenarz C, Watson JT, Alander D. Complication with removal of a
lumbar spinal locking plate. Case Rep Orthop. 2015;2015:787249. doi:
10.1155/2015/787249. Epub 2015 Mar 9. PubMed PMID: 25838956; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC4369897.
)).
===2014===
A 46 year-old patient who had had lumbar pain for several weeks that irradiated to the right leg, and did not respond to NSAID treatment. The work-up included MRI, biopsy with draining of the collection and a universal PCR followed by 16S rDNA sequencing. The latter was used to make the microbiologic diagnosis, which identified Fusobacterium nucleatum as the causative agent. Final treatment consisted of [[clindamycin]]. 

[[Spondylodiscitis]] due to Fusobacterium spp. is a rare and difficult to diagnose entity, due both to its clinical characteristics and to the difficulty in making the right microbiologic diagnosis
((Mediavilla-Santos L, Fernández-Mariño JR, Sánchez-Somolinos M, Vicente-Herrera
E, Díaz-Mauriffo-Garrido-Lestache J, Marín-Martín M. [Spondylodiscitis due to
Fusobacterium nucleatum: new diagnostic method]. Acta Ortop Mex. 2014
Jul-Aug;28(4):248-52. Spanish. PubMed PMID: 26021107.
)).