Treatment of spinal tuberculosis: Conservative or surgical?;Tratamento da tuberculose da coluna vertebral: Conservador ou cirúrgico?

Acta Ortopedica Brasileira

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 128-131

  De Medeiros, Rodrigo Serikawa ^a   Abdo, Rodrigo Calil Teles ^a   De Paula, Fabiano Cortesi ^a   Narazaki, Douglas Kenji ^a,b   Correia, Leonardo Dos Santos ^a   De Araújo, Marcelo Poderoso ^a   Cristante, Alexandre Fogaça ^a   Iutaka, Alexandre Sadao ^a   Marcon, Raphael Martus ^a   Oliveira, Reginaldo Perilo ^a   De Barros Filho, Tarcísio Eloy Pessoa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HC/FMUSP ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Kyphosis; Spine; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548764413     PISSN: 14137852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-78522007000300001     Document Type: Article

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