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Literature review on the subject of How often do negative cultures occur in Pott's disease confirmed by other means?
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Hidalgo & Alangaden 2006
Synonyms and related keywords: Pott disease, TB, disk disease, vertebral collapse, kyphosis, kyphotic deformity, musculoskeletal tuberculosis, bone destruction, paraplegia, osteomyelitis, spinal tuberculosis, arthritis, disk disease, spine deformity

Pott disease, also known as tuberculous spondylitis, is one of the oldest demonstrated diseases of humankind, having been documented in spinal remains from the Iron Age and in ancient mummies from Egypt and Peru. In 1779, Percivall Pott, for whom Pott disease is named, presented the classic description of spinal...

TB spondylitis
* TB is most common infection of pediatric spine
* paraspinal abscess
* +/- calcification
DDx:
* nontuberculous spondylitis
* primary or metastatic neoplasm (rarely only at 1 level)
* histiocytosis (usually --> collapse {vert plana})

Radiology Picture of the Day. Image of spinal xray with brief discussion.

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...

Cochrane Rev Abstract. 2007
Authors' conclusions The two included trials had too few participants to be able to say whether routine surgery might help. Although current medication and operative techniques are now far more advanced, these results indicate that routine surgery cannot be recommended unless within the context of a large,...

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]....

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...

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...

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....

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...

H. Mustafa Özdemir, MD*; A. Kemal Us†; Tunç Ögün* Spine 28(5):474-479, 2003.
Conclusion: The use of anterior spinal stabilization accompanied with a structural allograft fibula is effective after proper radical débridement for interbody fusion, deformity correction, and maintenance in cases of multisegment-involved Pott's disease (spinal tuberculosis).

Radiology case 338-231 Clinical presentation: 27 year old man, originally from India, with increasing back pain and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
There is loss of disc space between the 3rd and 4th lumbar vertebrae and some blurring of the lower end-plate of L3. The density of the body is irregular in...

Radiology case 311-231 Clinical presentation: 30 year old Indian man with neck pain and stiffness.
There is a soft tissue swelling, which displaces the retropharyngeal air-tissue boundary forwards. The centre of radius of the bulge lies roughly at the level of the axis vertebra, where an anterior defect in the vertebra, below...