OUR CLINICAL CONCEPT İN TREATMENT OF VERTEBRAL TUBERCULOSIS
Journal Title: Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery - Year 1992, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Eighty one vertebral tuberculosis cases were treated in SSK İstanbul Hospital and Taksim Hospital Orthopaed-ics and Traumatology Clinics betvveen 1987-1993 years. Thir1ytwo patients were treated conservatively and 49 pa tients were operated. İn surgical group 14 patients had only abcess drainage, 29 had posterior fusion and 6 had an-teriorfusion operations. İn years 1986-1987, for correction of deformity and stabilization, Anterior radical resection and posterior fusion with instrumantation were performed first time in our Clinic.
Authors and Affiliations
M. CANİKLİOĞLU, N. AZAR, C. MİRZANLI, M. KARAMEHMETOĞLU, H. GÜLHAN
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