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Table 2 Highest preoperative Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), C-reactive Protein (CRP), and White Blood Cell (WBC) count, and time to return to normal value in 26 patients successfully treated by percutaneous endoscopic debridement with dilute betadine solution irrigation

From: Minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for lumbar infectious spondylitis: a retrospective study in a tertiary referral center

Case no.

Highest preop ESR (mm/h)

time to half of original Preop value (weeks)

Highest preop CRP (mg/L)

Time to normal value (weeks)

Highest preop WBC (/μL)

Time of abnormal WBC to normal value (weeks)

1

83

3

112

4

8960

Initial WNL

2

18

4

25

3

7670

Initial WNL

3

120

3

102

5

9990

Initial WNL

4

55

2

31

2

11030

3

5

50

5

78

4

7520

Initial WNL

6

55

3

46

4

8630

Initial WNL

7

34

4

22

2

8660

Initial WNL

8

34

1

138

4

12370

3

9

86

5

104

6

9640

Initial WNL

10

33

4

38

4

6920

Initial WNL

11

52

4

103

3

10140

Initial WNL

12

55

3

46

3

16140

4

13

131

6

35

4

12370

3

14

49

4

38

2

5780

Initial WNL

15

60

4

93

6

4630

Initial WNL

16

111

4

104

6

16490

5

17

104

5

182

6

21620

5

18

34

3

18

2

9190

Initial WNL

19

37

5

177

6

7820

Initial WNL

20

58

3

64

2

11130

2

21

39

2

58

6

11770

3

22

67

1

93

3

3590

Initial WNL

23

123

1

377

6

14990

4

24

62

2

92

6

6590

Initial WNL

25

37

3

52

6

8750

Initial WNL

26

62

4

89

5

12690

3

Mean

63.4

3.4

89.1

4.2

10195

3.5

  1. Preop = preoperative, WNL = within normal limit.