Spinal cord compression from spinal tuberculosis in a child

Pediatric Neurosurgery
Nejmi KiymazOzgur Demir

Abstract

Tuberculosis in children most frequently involves the pulmonary system. Spinal tuberculosis is very rare and insidious in children. We present a 1-year-old girl who was brought to our clinic with complaints of a bulge on her back and weakness in the feet. She was investigated with magnetic resonance imaging and at the thoracic level which revealed vertebral destruction and para- and perispinal abscess. Computed tomography of the lungs showed tuberculous lesions. The child's mother gave a post history of recovered lung tuberculosis. Due to appearance paraparesis secondary to vertebral destruction, we removed the abscess and infected bone and reconstruction was carried out with fibular allograft anteriorly. Tuberculosis bacilli were isolated from the postoperative biopsy culture. In this study, we evaluated the methods of diagnosis and treatment of spiral tuberculosis according to the studies and publications which have been done previously.

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Dec 11, 1999·International Orthopaedics·A Y Mushkin, K N Kovalenko

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Apr 7, 2009·Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology·Daniela Cristina StefanSavvas Andronikou
Feb 9, 2010·Journal of Child Neurology·Inn-Chi LeeJia-Yuh Chen
Dec 19, 2017·Child's Nervous System : ChNS : Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery·Gokhan CavusÜmit Çelik

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