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The rates of early and late postoperative infection have been reported to be between 0.1% and 1.6%, the late infections are being very rare. We report a rare case of a 30-year-old HIV negative, non-diabetic male who developed a late prevertebral cervical abscess with discharging sinus over posterior triangle of neck 3 years after an anterior cervical C6 corpectomy with fibular grafting and buttress screw fixation performed elsewhere for traumatic fracture C6 vertebra. The abscess was drained using radical neck dissection approach with complete excision of sinus track and removal of the infected implant. On culture, the organism was found to be beta-hemolytic streptococci, for which appropriate antibiotics were administered postoperatively. The sinus tract completely healed in 3 months time. Late infection as a complication of anterior cervical spine surgeries is rare and is associated with esophageal perforation, implant migration, seeding of the deep prevertebral space with oropharyngeal flora, or from surgical site\/bacteremia or with Zenker\u2019s diverticulum. Few cases have been reported till date, but none have presented with a sinus tract. We present a case of delayed prevertebral abscess after cervical spine instrumentation that followed abnormal path causing sinus track to be developed in the site (the posterior triangle of the neck) other than previous incision site. Exploring both triangles of the neck using radical neck dissection approach was essential for complete excision of sinus track, removal of screw and debridement.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4103\/1793-5482.161172","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,22]],"date-time":"2015-07-22T10:12:03Z","timestamp":1437559923000},"page":"272-276","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Late prevertebral abscess with sinus following anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Swapnil","family":"Bhise","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, B J Govt Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, Maharashtra"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ambarish","family":"Mathesul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, B J Govt Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, 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