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Postoperative MRI demonstrated normal hardware placement and a large epidural fluid collection that extended from C-4 to C-6. The patient underwent decompression and drainage of her sterile postoperative seroma. To the authors' knowledge, no case of seroma formation with the use of DBM has been previously reported. This case suggests that although rhBMP-2 is involved in the majority of postoperative seroma developments, other osteoinductive agents such as DBM can contribute to the development of a symptomatic seroma. 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