Issue 2/2012
Special Issue: Spinal Infections
Content (37 Articles)
Infections of the spine are still a great problem
Luis Lopez-Duran Stern, Carlos Leon Serrano
Tuberculosis of the spine. A systematic review of case series
Manuel Fuentes Ferrer, Luisa Gutiérrez Torres, Oscar Ayala Ramírez, Mercedes Rumayor Zarzuelo, Náyade del Prado González
Microbiological diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis
Paloma Merino, Francisco J. Candel, Israel Gestoso, Elvira Baos, Juan Picazo
Management of infectious discitis. Outcome in one hundred and eight patients in a University Hospital
Juan Luis Cebrián Parra, Alvaro Saez-Arenillas Martín, Antonio L. Urda Martínez-Aedo, Isabel Soler Ivañez, Emilio Agreda, Luis Lopez-Duran Stern
Effect of delayed diagnosis on severity of Pott’s disease
Eli Kamara, Sahil Mehta, James C. M. Brust, Anil K. Jain
Does multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction increase the diagnostic percentage in osteoarticular tuberculosis? A prospective evaluation of 80 cases
Kusum Sharma, Aman Sharma, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ramesh Kumar Sen, Mandeep Singh Dhillon, Meera Sharma
Magnetic Resonance evaluation of tubercular lesion in spine
Anil Kumar Jain, Ravi Sreenivasan, Namita Singh Saini, Sudhir Kumar, Saurabh Jain, Ish Kumar Dhammi
Use of Technetium99m–ciprofloxacin scan in Pott’s spine to assess the disease activity
Mayank Agrawal, Vikas Bhardwaj, Wangchuk Tsering, Sumit Sural, Ravi Kashyap, Anil Dhal
Management of drug-resistant spinal tuberculosis with a combination of surgery and individualised chemotherapy: a retrospective analysis of thirty-five patients
Litao Li, Zehua Zhang, Fei Luo, Jianzhong Xu, Peng Cheng, Zheng Wu, Qiang Zhou, Qingyi He, Fei Dai, Jian Wang, Jinsong Zhang
A clinical study of internal fixation, debridement and interbody thoracic fusion to treat thoracic tuberculosis via posterior approach only
Hongqi Zhang, Shu Huang, Hubing Guo, Lei Ge, Bin Sheng, Yuxiang Wang, Chaofeng Guo, Mingxing Tang
Outcomes of anterior and posterior instrumentation under different surgical procedures for treating thoracic and lumbar spinal tuberculosis in adults
Yuan Zheng Ma, Xu Cui, Hong Wei Li, Xing Chen, Xiao Jun Cai, Yi Bing Bai
A posterior versus anterior surgical approach in combination with debridement, interbody autografting and instrumentation for thoracic and lumbar tuberculosis
Xiaobing Pu, Qiang Zhou, Qinyi He, Fei Dai, Jianzhong Xu, Zehua Zhang, Kopjar Branko
Instrumented circumferential fusion for tuberculosis of the dorso-lumbar spine. A single or double stage procedure?
Mohammad Mostafa El-Sharkawi, Galal Zaki Said
Posterior mono-segmental fixation, combined with anterior debridement and strut graft, for treatment of the mono-segmental lumbar spine tuberculosis
Zili Wang, Haifeng Yuan, Guangqi Geng, Jiandang Shi, Weidong Jin
Thoracoscopic decompression in Pott’s spine and its long-term follow-up
Sudhir Kapoor, Saurabh Kapoor, Mayank Agrawal, Pankaj Aggarwal, Brijesh Kumar Jain Jr.
One-Stage Anterolateral Surgical Treatment for Lumbosacral Segment Tuberculosis
Jie-fu Song, Zhi-zhen Jing, Bin Chen, Zi-Sheng Ai, Wei Hu
Comparison between the antero-posterior and anterior approaches for treating L5-S1 vertebral tuberculosis
Qingyi He, Jianzhong Xu
Surgical correction of kyphotic deformity in spinal tuberculosis
Paul S. Issack, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Kyphotic deformity in spinal tuberculosis and its management
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran
The surgical treatment and related management for post-tubercular kyphotic deformity of the cervical spine or the cervico-thoracic spine
Yang Liu, Yuanyuan Chen, Lili Yang, Xuhui Zhou, Ce Wang, Min Qi, Wen Yuan
Single-stage posterior instrumentation and anterior debridement for active tuberculosis of the thoracic and lumbar spine with kyphotic deformity
Xiao-bin Wang, Jing Li, Guo-hua Lü, Bin Wang, Chang Lu, Yi-jun Kang
Late onset Pott’s paraplegia in patients with upper thoracic sharp kyphosis
Zhengfeng Zhang
Spinal infections in children: a review
Patricia M. de Moraes Barros Fucs, Robert Meves, Helder Henzo Yamada
Treatment of spondylodiscitis
Kourosh Zarghooni, Marc Röllinghoff, Rolf Sobottke, Peer Eysel
Spondylodiscitis in patients under haemodyalisis
Ana Maria Cervan, Juan de Dios Colmenero, Alfonso Del Arco, Francisco Villanueva, Enrique Guerado
Postoperative spondilodiscitis
Antoine Gerometta, Fabian Bittan, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Olaverri
Postoperative infections of the lumbar spine: presentation and management
Dennis S. Meredith, Christopher K. Kepler, Russel C. Huang, Barry D. Brause, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Postoperative disc space infection after discectomy: A report on thirty-five patients
Thamer A. Hamdan
Infections in spinal instrumentation
Antoine Gerometta, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Olaverri, Fabian Bitan
Infections after spinal correction and fusion for spinal deformities in childhood and adolescence
Manon Bachy, Benjamin Bouyer, Raphaël Vialle
Infection and revision strategies in total disc arthroplasty
Antoine Gerometta, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Olaverri, Fabian Bittan