complications are rare. Major textbooks and specialised books on osteoporosis either do not mention spinal cord compression as a complication of senile osteoporosis'-3 or state that it is rare or does not occur." Thus one book states, "Nerve root compression is rare and spinal cord damage does not occur even in the presence ofsevere deformity"5; another that, "Spinal cord compression does not o...

UNLABELLED We retrospectively reviewed 12 patients with spinal tuberculosis of the thoracic and lumbar spine who had radical débridement, anterior decompression, interbody arthrodesis with an anterior interbody titanium cage, and autologous bone grafts, combined with a standardized perioperative antituberculous regimen. Their mean age was 55.1 years and they were observed for a mean of 65.3 mon...

Postoperative infections following spine surgery are usually attributable to bacterial organisms. Staphylococcus aureus is known to be the most common single pathogen leading to this infection, and the number of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is increasing. However, there is a paucity of literature addressing postoperative infection with Mycobacterium tuberculo...

We present a rare case of tuberculous spondylitis following intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer. An 82-year-old man presented with low back pain. Past medical history revealed bladder cancer diagnosed and treated 16 months previously by intravesical BCG. Magnetic resonance imaging of the thoracic spine showed destruction of the T5 and T6 vertebrae and an epidu...

Bones and joints, among other extrapulmonary organs, are most often affected by tuberculosis. The clinical picture is «hidden», the diagnosis of disease delayed for a long time with all negative consequences.
 Objective — to study trend in incidence tuberculosis bone joint localization Sumy region residents recent years draw attention general practitioners urgent problem today.
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The authors studied a group of 7 patients (5 men and 2 women) suffering from tuberculous spondylitis who were treated at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1992 to 1998. The thoracic spine was affected six-times, lumbar spine once. Three patients were treated with Capener anterolateral decompression. In three patients combined surgery was used (removed structures were replaced by autograf...

Tuberculous trochanteric bursitis (TTB) is a rare condition that accounts for 1% of musculoskeletal tuberculosis cases. Extrapulmonary TB is usually diagnosed late because of reduced diagnostic suspicion, particularly in the absence of signs of systemic infection. Herein, we report a case of right hip pain that was misdiagnosed as ankylosing spondylitis. The patient had a history of inflammator...

ous pathogen in many parts of the world being increasingly responsible for disease. Worldwide 7–10 million people have tuberculosis; in 1995 in the United States 22 201 new cases were reported. Neurotuberculosis accounts for about 5% of extrapulmonary cases of tuberculosis. It is a result of the bacteremic stage of the disease, during which tuberculous lesions (Rich’s foci) may form in the meni...