Use of wound V.A.C. therapy in pediatric patients with infected spinal wounds: a retrospective review.

Background: Deep wound infection in patients that have had a posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis is a major complication in pediatric spine surgery.

Purpose: To explore characteristics of pediatric patients who had a posterior spinal fusion with segmental spinal instrumentation and bone graft and subsequently developed deep spinal wound infections that were treated with wound vacuum-assisted closure (V.A.