Renfeng Liu, Jinpeng He, Qizhi Fan, Hao Zhou, Xin Wu, Zuyun Yan, Wei Tan, Xiaofang Zang, Deng Youwen
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long-term clinical efficacy of three different surgical approaches in treating thoracolumbar tuberculosis. METHODS: A total of 176 patients with thoracolumbar tuberculosis, treated with open surgery at two hospitals, were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were stratified into three groups based on the surgical approach: anterior-only (AO), posterior-only (PO), and anterior-posterior combined (AP) approaches. Collected data encompassed operative duration, intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay length, complications, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) classification, and radiographic measurements of segmental lordotic Cobb angles, correction angles, and correction rates...
March 18, 2024: International Journal of Surgery