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Comparative study on the efficacy of two-staged (posterior followed by anterior) surgical treatment using spinal instrumentation on pyogenic and tuberculotic spondylitis.

Takahiro Masuda, Kei Miyamoto, Hideo Hosoe, and Katsuji Shimizu

Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 131(6):765-72 (2011) PMID 21069364

Between 1997 and 2006, we treated 11 patients with tuberculotic spondylitis and 19 with pyogenic spondylitis using a two-staged operation (posterior spinal instrumentation, followed by anterior debridement and fusion).

DOI: 10.1007/s00402-010-1209-x
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