Long-term follow-up and analysis of 27 cases of spinal TB after surgical treatment.

Objective: To evaluate the treating effects of surgery on the spinal tuberculosis of twenty-seven patients by long term fellow up.Method: Twenty-seven patients with spinal tuberculosis,admitted in our hospital in the past 10 years,were retrospectively an-alyzed.They were treated with focal clearance followed with boneautograft and internal fixation.After average period of 44 months,the treating effects ofsurgery andchemotherapy.Results: The results of short term follow-up showed that all the cuts were A healing and all the fixation were stable,the compression symptoms were relieve or vanish.But by the long term follow-up,patients whoobeyed to the entire chemotherapy gainedcompletely recovered fromspinal tuberculosis.Onthe contrary,4 patients who gave up the chemotherapy were foundrecrudescence of tuberculosis and retreated by surgery and entirechemotherapy.Conclusions: In the treatment of spinal tuberculosis,both surgery and entire chemotherapy should be emphasized.