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SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS Don’t Forget the Posterior Elements

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Description: Bombay Hospital Journal Volume 44 No.1, January 2002
JD JAGIASI*, S AIYER*, JV PATANKAR**, AB GOREGAONKAR*** *Lecturer; **Associate Professor and Unit Chief; ***Professor and Head, Department of Orthopaedics, LTMGH and LTMMC, Sion, Mumbai 22.
A case of spinal tuberculosis is described, involving the posterior elements of the thoracic vertebra. An 18-year-old girl presented with sudden onset paraplegia. Patient was treated with posterior spinal decompression.

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