Two-stage surgical management using posterior instrumentation, anterior debridement and allografting for tuberculosis of the lower lumbar spine in children of elementary school age: Minimum 3-year follow-up of 14 patients

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1273-1279

  Zhang, Hong Qi ^a   Li, Jin Song ^a   Guo, Chao Feng ^a   Liu, Shao Hua ^a   Tang, Ming Xing ^a   Wang, Yu Xiang ^a   Deng, Ang ^a   Gao, Qi Le ^a   Lin, Min Zhong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Children of elementary school age; Lumbar vertebrae; Spinal tuberculosis; Two stage surgery

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANKEL SCORING SYSTEM; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PEDICLE SCREW; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEBRIDEMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 84866972346     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: 14343916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-012-1548-x     Document Type: Article

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