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General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and typically infects the lungs. However, extrapulmonary forms of TB can be found in approximately 20% of cases. It is suggested, that up to 10% of extrapulmonary TB affects the musculoskeletal system, in which spinal elements (spinal tuberculosis, STB) are involved in approximately 50% of the cases.
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Ortopedické oddělení, Klaudiánova nemocnice, Oblastní nemocnice Mladá Boleslav, a.s.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The paper presents a monocentric retrospective study of patients treated surgically for spinal tuberculosis. Clinical and radiological results are analysed, early and late complications are recorded. The study aims to answer the following questions.
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The ankle joint is a complex joint that bears the human body's weight throughout daily activities. Unimalleolar, bimalleolar, and trimalleolar fractures are the three subgroups that make up the category of ankle fractures. Determining the risk-benefit tradeoffs between non-operative and surgical therapy still requires a thorough initial examination of the fracture pattern, soft tissue condition, and patient characteristics.
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Asian Spine J
October 2022
Department of Community Ophthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Historically, osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB), including spinal TB, was treated with prolonged course of antitubercular therapy (ATT). Due to various challenges, there has been reluctance to explore the use of short-course ATT in spinal TB. However, with the success of short-course ATT being demonstrated in other forms of extrapulmonary TB, the subject is open for debate again.
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Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Medanta, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Spinal tuberculosis is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. It is of great importance to neurologists because of the potentially devastating complication of paraplegia, which may set in during active disease or the healed phase. Due to the deep-seated nature of the disease, definitive diagnosis is often challenging.
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