Expert's comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled "Closing-opening wedge osteotomy for severe, rigid thoraco-lumbar post-tubercular kyphosis" (by S. Rajasekaran, P. Rishimugesh Kanna and Ajoy Prasad Shetty).
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 20725753.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1007/s00586-010-1528-1 and PMC identifier 3048227.
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Abstract
Prevention or correction of severe kyphotic deformity in addition to eradication of the infective focus has become the modern standard of management of tuberculosis of the spine. Circumferential excision of the kyphus is now technically feasible with the development of rigid pedicle screw fixation system and intraoperative spinal cord monitoring in the past two decades.
Medical subject headings
- Kyphosis
- Neurosurgical Procedures
- Osteotomy
- Plastic Surgery Procedures
- Tuberculosis, Spinal
Anatomy
- lumbar spine