Comment on the new classification of surgical treatment of spinal tuberculosis

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 291-292

  Murugappan, Karthik ^a   Khandwal, Pankaj ^a   Upendra, Bidre ^a   Jayaswal, Arvind ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERICIDE;

BONE BIOPSY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 59449087434     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-008-0582-3     Document Type: Letter

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