[Current state and development in surgical treatment for children with spinal tuberculosis].
This article reviews a large number of recent years' literatures about surgical treatment for children with spinal tuberculosis on the characteristics of children with spinal tuberculosis, and analyzes the development of surgical treatment for children with spinal tuberculosis. Then it summarizes the indications of surgical treatment for children with spinal tuberculosis, and analyzes the clinical effect of various surgical methods of spinal tuberculosis, assesses that anterior debridement combined with anterior and posterior interbody autografting can be a good growth rate and deformity correction. Pedicle fixation on the children with spinal tuberculosis is safe and feasible. The positive early surgery can control children kyphosis. Minimally invasive surgery is the development direction of treatment for children spinal tuberculosis.
Zheng
Chang-kun
CK
Department of Orthopaedics of the Second Hospital Affiliated Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325027, Zhejiang, China.
Huang
Qi-shan
QS
Hu
Yue-zheng
YZ
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D016268:Internal Fixators; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D013131:Spine / Q000601:surgery*; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000601:surgery*