"Tuberculosis, Spinal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Osteitis or caries of the vertebrae, usually occurring as a complication of tuberculosis of the lungs.
| Descriptor ID |
D014399
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.410.040.552.846.831.722 C01.539.160.886.722 C05.116.165.886.722 C05.116.900.853.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Tuberculosis, Spinal- Tuberculosis, Spinal
- Spinal Tuberculoses
- Spinal Tuberculosis
- Tuberculoses, Spinal
- Pott Disease
- Disease, Pott
- Pott's Disease
- Disease, Pott's
- Potts Disease
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tuberculosis, Spinal" by people in Profiles.
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A review of the neurological and neurosurgical implications of tuberculosis in children. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 Dec; 52(12):1135-43.
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Analysis of changing paradigms of management in 179 patients with spinal tuberculosis over a 12-year period and proposal of a new management algorithm. World Neurosurg. 2013 Jul-Aug; 80(1-2):190-203.
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Surgical treatment of thoracic Pott disease in a 3-year-old child, with vertebral column resection and posterior-only circumferential reconstruction of the spinal column: case report. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Apr; 9(4):447-51.
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Minimally invasive lateral extracavitary corpectomy: cadaveric evaluation model and report of 3 clinical cases. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 May; 16(5):463-70.