INSTRUMENTACIÓN DE COLUMNA, EN MAL DE POTT: A PROPÓSITO DE UN CASO

Less than 1 % of patients with miliary tuberculosis has vertebral tuberculosis or also called Pott Disease. The most important symptomatology is pain, limited function and muscular contracture. When illness is ad- vanced, it presents dorsal hump and neurologic affectation. Now, we present the case of 34 years old feminine patient whom seven months before, she presented pulmonary tuberculosis as a past health with lumbar pain and paresthesia of inferior members such as symptoms. Image studies develop morfophology alterations since T10 to T12. At the beginning, she was treated with Ri- fampin-Isoniazid-Pyrazinamide-Etambutol, then, she had column instrumentation with a favorable evolution.