[Suboccipital tuberculosis: the clinical and radiation and potentialities of current surgical treatment].

The clinical and radiological manifestations of suboccipital tuberculosis have been analyzed in 7 patients aged 7 to 35 years. A case of this condition accompanied by extensive vertebral destruction, abscesses, and basilar impression is described in a 7.5-year-old child.

[Clinical, x-ray, and laboratory features of tuberculosis and osteomyelitis of the spine].

In 20% of cases, tuberculous spondylitis running with a prevalence of the exudative-necrotic type of a local tissue reaction has an acute onset with febrile fever, severe pains, and progressive neurological disorders and clinically resembles acute hematogenous osteomyelitis of the spine. With a predominance of the productive type of a tissue reaction, tuberculous spondylitis resembles subacute hematogenous osteomyelitis of the spine. History data, laboratory parameters, and an X-ray follow-up are of great importance in its differential diagnosis.

[Current radiotherapy for extrapulmonary tuberculosis].

Radiation studies are prominent in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. X-ray study preserves its basic value. Its-based concepts of the pathology of osteoarticular, urogenital, lymphabdominal tuberculosis largely allow for analyzing the images obtained by new medical visualization techniques, such as X-ray tomography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasonography, and radionuclide studies.

[Clinical and radiographic manifestations of tuberculous spondylitis in adults].

Data on 348 adult patients with tuberculous spondylitis treated in 1994-1999 are analyzed. The radiation manifestations of spondylitis first occurring in maturity, which amount to 82.3% in the clinical setting were studied in 112 patients.

[Radiologic diagnosis of osteoarticular tuberculosis and borderline skeletal diseases].

A total of 3305 ill children and adults treated for skeletal diseases and lesions underwent primary and follow-up radiation studies. Patients with spinal diseases amounted to 72%, of them 58% were found to have neurological diseases, 28% had articular diseases. The examination of patients involved X-ray tomography, contrast myelotomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging.