Atlanto-axial dislocation IS an uncommon condition. It is usually secondary to trauma, infection (tuberculous and non-tuberculous atlas and axis) and rheumatoid arthritis. Other uncommon causes reported include retropharyngeal abscess, malignant deposits, ankylosing spondylitis (Sorin, et al, 1979). Congenital atlanto-axial dislocation is rare. Wadia (1967) first drew attention to its relative ...

Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a dangerous form of skeletal TB because of its ability to cause bone destruction, deformity, and paraplegia. The emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains (MDR-TB) should be suspected if treatment failure occurs, either medically or surgically, because its global incidence is increasing. Patients with MDR-TB are more difficult to treat, remain infectious for longe...

BACKGROUND Differences between the characteristics of culture positive pyogenic spondylitis (CPPS) and tuberculous spondylitis (TS) are well known. However, differences between the characteristics of culture negative pyogenic spondylitis (CNPS) and TS have not been reported; these would be more helpful in clinical practice especially when initial microbiologic examination of blood and/or biopsy...

Tuberculous spondylitis, also known as Pott’s disease, is due to infection of the spine by mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) leading vertebral body and inter-vertebral disc destruction. It most common form musculoskeletal frequently affecting thoracolumbar commoner in young people. Onset this condition insidious its clinical presentation non specific. However, disease may be complicated neurolog...

Background context: Pott disease and tuberculosis have been with humans for countless millennia. Before the mid-twentieth century, the treatment of tuberculous spondylitis was primarily supportive and typically resulted in dismal neurological, functional and cosmetic outcomes. The contemporary development of effective antituberculous medications, imaging modalities, anesthesia, operative techni...

tuberculous spondylitis is not an uncommon disease of the spine. near one percent of all cases of spinal tuberculosis (tb) involves craniocervical junction. hypoglossal nerve palsy is not an uncommon neurological finding, but isolated involvement of the hypoglossal nerve is rare and limited to case reports or small case series. here, we report a case of craniocervical junction tuberculosis pres...

BACKGROUND Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of EPTB is challenging in resource-limited settings due to difficulties in obtaining samples, as well as the paucibacillarity of the specimens. Skeletal tuberculosis accounts for 10-35 % of EPTB cases, with vertebral osteomyelitis (Pott's disease) representing 50 % of the cases. We ...