Tuberculosis of spine: neurological deficit
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Spinal Tuberculosis with Neurological Deficit
Nineteen patients with thoracic or thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis and neurological deficits were treated by anterior debridement, decompression and vascularised rib grafting, followed, either during the same procedure or 14 days later, by multilevel posterior osteotomies, instrumentation and fusion. Surgery was performed under cover of four-drug antituberculosis chemotherapy, given for 12 mo...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Spine Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0940-6719,1432-0932
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-012-2335-7