Some cool considerations of external lumbar drainage during its widespread application in neurosurgical practice: a long way to go

Table 2 Studies with identified infected patients after ELD

First author	Year	No. of patients	Infected (percentage)
Coplin WM [67]	1999	312	13 (4.2 %)
Açikbaş SC [57]	2002	63	5 (7.9 %)
Schade RP [66]	2005	125	8 (6.4 %)
Scheithauer S [10]	2010	79	17 (21.5 %)
Leverstein-van Hall MA [65]	2010	216	14 (6.5 %)
Llompart-Pou JA [19]	2011	30	1 (3 %)
Chen C [64]	2014	94	42 (44.7 %)

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