Pott's paraplegia in patients with severely deformed dorsal or dorsolumbar spines: Treatment and prognosis

Spinal Cord

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 164-171

  Moon, Myung Sang ^a,b   Moon, Jeong Lim ^c   Moon, Young Wan ^d,e   Kim, Sung Soo ^a,b   Kim, Sung Sim ^a,b   Sun, Doo Hoon ^a,b   Choi, Won Tai ^a,b  

^a Sun General Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Moon Kim's Inst of Orthopedic Res   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d SaraSung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^e Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advanced; Dorsal and dorsolumbar; Late onset; Paraplegia; Severe spinal deformity; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; KYPHOSIS; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 0345700312     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101366     Document Type: Article

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