Spinal tuberculosis is an infection of the spine by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium. It is one of the oldest known diseases and has plagued mankind since Neolithic times. Spinal tuberculosis is still a common disease in developing countries, although it is now rare in the United States. Tuberculosis is contagious...

Shanley Amer J Roent 164 (3): 659. (1995)
Spinal tuberculosis, the most common form of skeletal involvement, is increasing in prevalence because of the resur- gence of tuberculosis during the past decade in patients with AIDS, the spread of tuberculosis among the homeless, and the expanding immigrant population. Spinal infection is...

Oguz Karaeminogullari, Ufuk Aydinli, Remzi Ozerdemoglu, Cagatay Ozturk: Tuberculosis Of The Lumbar Spine: Outcomes After Combined Treatment With Short-Course Two-Drug Therapy And Surgery. The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. 2005. Volume 2 Number 2.
The purpose was to evaluate complications and treatment results in patients with tuberculosis of the lumbar spine....

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2006:14(1):71-5 CK Sree Harsha, AP Shetty, S Rajasekaran Department of Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery, Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, South India
We present a patient with spinal intradural tuberculosis in the absence of both vertebral and meningeal tuberculosis. Diagnosis was made based on intra-operative findings and was confirmed by histopathology. Early surgical decompression along with...

Golden & Vikram Am Fam Physician 2005;72:1761-8.
From 1985 until 1992 there was a resurgence of tuberculosis in the United States that coincided with the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Although the U.S. incidence of tuberculosis has since been in decline, this disease remains a major problem for much of...

Tuberculosis of the Spine deserves a place on the radar screen. McLain & Isada Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 2004 Vol 71 #7
Spinal involvement may be the first manifestation of tuberculosis and the problem that drives the patient to seek medical care. Spinal tuberculosis (often called Pott's disease) is by...

AJR 2002; 179:979-983 Srikanth Moorthy and Nirmal K. Prabhu Both authors: Department of Radiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita La., Elamakkara P. O., Cochin-682026, Kerala, India.
The relative rarity and varied presentations of spinal tuberculosis pose diagnostic difficulty, warranting its inclusion in the differential diagnosis of any spinal disorder [4]....

A child with isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis monoarthritis, with features initially suggesting oligoarthritis subtype of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, is presented. This patient illustrates the need to consider the possibility of tuberculosis as the cause of oligoarthritis in high-risk pediatric populations even in the absence of a tuberculosis contact history and without...

N. S. Motsitsi, Maria Chipeta: Prognosis Of Spinal Tuberculosis. The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. 2007. Volume 4 Number 2.
Keywords: Spinal Tuberculosis, Medical treatment, Prognosis, Frankel Grading
Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in developing countries. The highest rates of the disease are seen in Sub - Saharan Africa, the...

Spinal Cord (2002) 40, 604-608 B Dass, T A Puet and C Watanakunakorn
Conclusions: Although uncommon, spinal TB still occurs in patients from developed countries, such as the US and Europe. Back pain is an important symptom. Vertebral collapse from TB may be misinterpreted as 'compression fractures' especially in elderly...

Ahuja SR, Karande S, Thadhani AA. Double Gibbus Due to Spinal Tuberculosis. J Postgrad Med 2003;49:346-347
A 2-year-old girl presented with fever, anorexia and progressive spinal deformity for the past two months, and cough and breathlessness for the past two weeks. There was no apparent contact with a case of tuberculosis...

Duttaroy B, Agrawal C, Pendse A. Spinal tuberculosis due to dissemination of atypical mycobacteria. Indian J Med Sci 2004;58:203-205
There has been an increase in disease caused by Non Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) since the early 1980s. Though ubiquitous in environment, they may act as clinically important pathogens in various conditions. More...

D.Gopalakrishnan,K.N.Krishna Neurology India, 50, March 2002
A case of cervico thoracic junctional area spinal tuberculosis presenting as painful radiculitis of the upper extremity is reported. The predominant symptom of radicular pain and muscle weakness in the hand, along with a claw deformity, led to considerable delay in diagnosis. The...

H. Hakan Poyrazoglu, Funda Tor, M. Kemal Av?ar, ?hsan Bayraktar, Semra Payda?, Tümer Ulus: Vertebral Tuberculosis Mimicking Malign Vertebral And Spinal Cord Tumors. The Internet Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007. Volume 9 Number 1.
Abstract: An 68 year old patient who had a lung mass which was invaded into the...

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2001, 9(1): 57–60 Jitendra Mangwani, Anil Kumar Gupta, CS Yadav and KS Rao Central Institute of Orthopaedics, Safdarjang Hospital,New Delhi, India
ABSTRACT Tuberculosis of the shoulder joint is uncommon. In adults the classical dry type of shoulder tuberculosis (caries sicca) has been described, while the fulminating variety has not been reported. We...

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Braz J Infect Dis vol.10 no.2 Salvador Apr. 2006
Humberto Metta; Marcelo Corti; Liliana Redini; Claudio Yampolsky; Ricardo Schtirbu Unit 17 and Division of HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases F.J. Muñiz Hospital; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a rare infectious disorder that often has delayed diagnosis and is associated with significant...

Tuberculosis remains a major source of morbidity and mortality world- wide, and orthopaedic surgeons working in developing nations, especially in South East Asia, are likely to encounter patients with osteoarticular manifestations of the disease. Chemotherapy is effective, and surgery serves as an adjunct for specific indications. Tuberculous osteomyelitis is the...

Outcome and Management of Spinal Tuberculosis According to the Severity of Disease: A Retrospective Study of 137 Adult Patients at Korean Teaching Hospitals
Spine. 2007;32(4):E130-E135 Park et al
In this study, we retrospectively analyzed the management and outcome of patients with spinal TB, in terms of the severity of disease,...

A PROSPECTIVE STUDY S. Govender, A. H. Parbhoo, K. P. S. Kumar, K. Annamalai From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Natal, South Africa
A total of 39 HIV-infected adults with spinal tuberculosis underwent anterior spinal decompression for neurological deficit. Fresh-frozen allografts were used in 38 patients. Antituberculous drugs...

Tariq Sinan, FRCR*; Hana Al-Khawari, FRCR*; Mohammed Ismail, MD†; Abdulmohsen Ben-Nakhi, FRCR‡; Mehraj Sheikh, MD, FRCR* Ann Saudi Med 24(6) November-December 2004
CONCLUSIONS: MRI offers excellent visualization of the bone and soft tissue com- ponents of spinal tuberculosis and helps to identify disease at distant asymptomatic sites....

Dr. A. Vincent Thamburaj. Neurosurgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai , India.
Spinal tuberculosis is common in the developing countries and also seen sporadically in well-developed countries. Lately the incidence is on the increase, world over, with the emergence of AIDS. About 60 % of cases are below the age of...

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...

Rheumatology 2001; 40: 341-342
K. Binymin and R. G. Cooper Department of Rheumatology, University of Manchester, Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford M6 8HD, UK
It is generally accepted that the use of chronic corticosteroid treatment predisposes to primary tuberculosis (TB) and reactivation of TB infection [1], and most of...

INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 9(5):541–544 2005 S. Ramachandran,* I. J. Clifton,* T. A. Collyns,† J. P. Watson,* S. B. Pearson* *Department of Respiratory Medicine, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, †Department of Microbiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: There are conflicting guidelines and variations in clinical practice in the...