A 52-year-old man came to hospital with the chief complaint of backache for 4 months. The patient had had diabetes mellitus for 9 years. He had frequently traveled to northeastern Thailand. Four months prior to admission, he suffered from backache. The pain progressively increased in 2 months before admission with fever, weakness of both legs and difficult walking and urine voiding. Physical ex...

  Abstract   Backgrounds: Pott's disease is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and   presents with several clinical patterns. Delay in diagnosis and management may   cause serious complications. We conducted a retrospective study between 1991-   2006 to evaluate clinical presentation, radiologic and laboratory findings, and therapeutic   approaches to spinal tuberculosis.   Methods: We...

OBJECTIVE To find out the frequency and patterns of various lesions in tuberculous spondylitis in adults on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Radiology Department, Military Hospital (MH) Rawalpindi, from September 2006 to March 2007. METHODOLOGY Patients with features suggestive of tuberculous spondylitis underwent plain T1- weighted a...

While tuberculous vertebral osteomyelitis is an ancient scourge, multi-drug resistant-tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a modern major public health concern. The objective of this study was to review and summarize the data available on MDR-TB spondylitis. An extensive search of the PubMed database was conducted for articles in English relevant to MDR-TB spondylitis by December 2015. Tuberculous spondyli...

Tuberculous spondylitis of the augmented vertebral column following percutaneous vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty has rarely been described. We report an unusual case of tuberculous spondylitis diagnosed after percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP). A 61-year-old woman presented to our institution complaining of back pain following a fall 7 days before. Radiologic studies revealed an acute osteoporotic co...

So far, there have been few previous reports of tuberculous spondylitis occurring after percutaneous vertebroplasty. We report an unusual case of tuberculous spondylitis diagnosed after percutaneous vertebroplasty in a patient who had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis for the first time. A 58-year-old woman, who had a history of complete recovery from pulmonary tuberculosis six years previous...