Study Design Bibliometric review of the literature. Objective This bibliometric analysis aims to give an overview of the most influential academic literature written on spinal tuberculosis. Methods All databases included in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge were searched for the most influential publications in spinal tuberculosis. The most cited articles published between 1950 and 2015,...

background: one of the important sites for extrapulmonary tb involvement is the skeleton. tuberculous spondylitis (pott’s disease) comprises 50-70% of the skeletal tuberculosis. methods: in this case series study, we prospectively investigated the result of anterior surgery alone (anterior debridement, fusion and instrumentation) in the patients with spinal tuberculosis. the patients with immat...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To compare the neurological outcome of transforaminal debridement and interbody fusion with transpedicular decompression for treatment of thoracic and lumbar spinal tuberculosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Few articles have addressed the impact of neurological recovery in patients with tuberculosis who were treated by two different operative methods via...

Tuberculosis (TB) is mainly a disease of the lungs, but Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) can establish infection in virtually any organ in the body. Rising rates of extrapulmonary (EP) TB have been largely associated with the HIV epidemic, as patients co-infected with HIV show a four-fold higher risk of EPTB. Spinal TB (Pott's Disease), one of the most debilitating extrapulmonary forms of disea...

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Halo-pelvic ring traction in the treatment of severe kyphotic deformity secondary to spinal tuberculosis.Eighty patients with severe kyphotic deformity due to spinal tuberculosis were included in the study. Forty of those patients (experimental group) received Halo- pelvic ring traction before surgery and the rest (control group) received surgical treatmen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and clinical outcome of simultaneous or sequential anterior and posterior surgical approaches in the management of spinal tuberculosis in the form of anterior extirpation of the tuberculous lesion, strut bone grafting of the defect produced and posterior instrumentation for spinal fixation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty-two patients who had tuberculosis of the...

AIM To evaluate the long-term outcomes for the surgical treatment of thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis with anterior radical debridement and reconstruction with titanium mesh cages (TMCs). MATERIAL AND METHODS 69 patients with thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis were retrospectively analyzed. Outcomes data included VAS back pain, subjective clinical...

Introduction: Spinal tuberculosis is a serious health care problem and diagnosis is often difficult because many diseases may have similar imaging findings. Hence the need to describe findings of spinal tuberculosis with 2-[fluorine 18]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) when compared to CT. Materials and Methods: Sixteen consecutive patients who underwent 18F-FDG ...

Deep Candida infections commonly occur in immunosuppressed patients. A rare case of a multiple deep organ infection with Candida albicans and spinal tuberculosis was reported in a healthy young man. The 19-year-old man complained of month-long fever and lower back pain. He also had a history of scalded mouth syndrome. Coinfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Candida albicans was diagnose...