The spinal column is involved in less than 1% of all cases of tuberculosis (TB). Spinal TB is a very dangerous type of skeletal TB as it can be associated with neurologic deficit due to compression of adjacent neural structures and significant spinal deformity. Therefore, early diagnosis and management of spinal TB has special importance in preventing these serious complications. In order to ex...

A patient who developed a myelopathy during a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis is described. The underlying mechanisms and problems in diagnosis are discussed.

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...

INTRODUCTION Despite a global reduction in tuberculosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis is increasing. Spinal tuberculosis remains the commonest form of skeletal tuberculosis. Cervical spine involvement is rare but is the most dangerous form because of diagnostic difficulties and serious residual disability. We report a child who had single vertebral involvement of her third cervical vertebra whic...

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to describe the radiological features of spinal tuberculosis on MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and plain radiograph and the role of MRI in assessing the extent of disease, to assess the degree of cord/ thecal sac compression and to correlate with neurological deficit. Methods: This study was done on prospective basis in 30 patients with clinical suspici...

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...

Background Tuberculosis is still endemic in Tunisia. Although pulmonary localization the most common, other localizations, including osteo-articular involvement, are increasingly diagnosed. Tuberculous spondylodiscitis (SPDT) or Pott’s disease an infectious involvement of disc-vertebrate couple, caused by tubercular bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensiti...