Syed Ather Enam, Ahmed Ali Shah.
Treatment of Spinal Tuberculosis: role of surgical intervention.
Pak J Neurological Sci Jan ;1(3):145-51.

If patients have milder forms of spinal TB and are diagnosed earlier, conservative management consisting of anti-tuberculous medication and orthosis is the treatment of choice. In those cases where conservative management has failed, and the patient is developing kyphotic deformity and/or neurological deficits, surgical treatment is superior. In cases with significant pain due to pseudo-arthrosis, surgery should be considered even if the underlying TB infection has healed. In surgical treatment, since the pathology is usually anterior, an anterior approach with wide debridement, autologous bone grafting and instrumentation is appropriate in most of the cases. This is a review article.

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