Mycobacterial Diseases
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Kush Kumar

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• Review Article
  Posterior Spinal Tuberculosis: A Review
  Author(s): Kush Kumar Kush Kumar
  
  Natural history of posterior spinal tuberculosis has been described. Classifications of the posterior spinal tuberculosis disease process and principles of management based upon the clinical behavior of the disease has been highlighted and emphasized. A thorough review of literature was conducted with the aim to provide the clinicoradiological correlation of the natural history of posterior spinal tuberculosis in described. Management strategy is developed based upon the severity of the clinical behavior of the disease. In anterior spinal tuberculosis, motor fibers are compressed first as they are placed anterior to the sensory tracts in the spinal cord. The sensory fibers are therefore involved in late stages. Ironically, in posterior spinal tuberculosis when compression is predominantly from the posterior aspect of the cord, we again find that motor fibers are involved prior to the .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-1068.1000243

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