Atypical Tuberculosis of the Spine

YALNIZ E., PEKİNDİL G., AKTAŞ Ş.

Yonsei Medical Journal, cilt.41, sa.5, ss.657-661, 2000 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2000
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3349/ymj.2000.41.5.657
  • Dergi Adı: Yonsei Medical Journal
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.657-661
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Atypical, Multifocal, Neural arch, Spine, Tuberculosis
  • Trakya Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Spinal tuberculosis characteristically involves the paradiscal area of vertebral bodies with a narrowing of the disc space. In this study, we reported four atypical forms of Pott's disease, including one hundred and eighty-four patients treated between 1985 and 1998. Two cases presented with noncontiguous multilevel involvement, where one case had transverse process involvement alone and the other had involvement of the neural arch. Atypical tuberculosis of the spine was found in 2.1% of the patients.