"Tuberculosis, Spinal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Osteitis or caries of the vertebrae, usually occurring as a complication of tuberculosis of the lungs.
| Descriptor ID |
D014399
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.410.040.552.846.831.722 C01.539.160.886.722 C05.116.165.886.722 C05.116.900.853.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Tuberculosis, Spinal- Tuberculosis, Spinal
- Spinal Tuberculoses
- Spinal Tuberculosis
- Tuberculoses, Spinal
- Pott Disease
- Disease, Pott
- Pott's Disease
- Disease, Pott's
- Potts Disease
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tuberculosis, Spinal" by people in Profiles.
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Lumbar vertebral growth is governed by "chondral growth force response curve" rather than "Hueter-Volkmann law": a clinico-biomechanical study of growth modulation changes in childhood spinal tuberculosis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2011 Oct 15; 36(22):E1435-45.
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En bloc spondylectomy for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis with fixed and sharply angulated kyphotic deformity. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2009 Sep 15; 34(20):2140-6.
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A surgical revisitation of Pott distemper of the spine. Spine J. 2003 Mar-Apr; 3(2):130-45.