title: Surgery for progressive Pott's paraplegia (tuberculous paraplegia)
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Açikgöz
authors.forename: O E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Ozcan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Belen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Erbengi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ozgen
mesh_terms: 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*