Radical Surgical Approach to Spinal Tuberculosis

The results are recorded of radical excisional surgery for spinal tuberculosis in eighty-five patients. 2. Clinically satisfactory results were obtained in 97 per cent of seventy-one patients followed up. Radiologically the disease was deemed to be cured in 71 per cent of cases. 3. The average period of rest after operation was three and a half months, and the average hospital stay was five and a half months. 4. Total recovery from paraplegia occurred in 84 per cent of patients so affected.