Surgery for progressive Pott's paraplegia (tuberculous paraplegia)
This is a study of 20 patients who had surgical intervention for Pott's paraplegia at the Hacettepe University Neurosurgery Department, Ankara. All patients were admitted with progressive paraparesis. Eleven patients had vertebrectomies, 5 laminectomies and in 4 patients costo-transversectomies were performed. The follow-up period ranged from 1 to 10 years. Thirteen patients were found to be normal at follow-up examinations (65%). In 4 patients there was some improvement in their neurological status, and the others had no improvement.
Açikgöz
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Department of Neurosurgery, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Ozcan
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Belen
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Erbengi
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Ozgen
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*