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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....

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...

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...

4000 cases of extrapulmonary involvment each year in the US;
- most common extra pulmonary location of TB is the spine;
- spine is the extrapulmonary site in over 50% of the cases of bone and joint involvement;
- about 2/3...

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...