Abstract
The following preliminary conclusions seem possible.
1. In early cases of Pott's disease of the thoracic spine in children the treatment should include chemotherapy, recumbency and costo-transversectomy. An exception may be made if severe destruction has led to subluxation of the column, when more radical surgery is indicated.
2. Combination of conservative treatment with costo-transversectomy can prevent spread of the disease along the vertebral column, and can lead to regression of this "spondylitis anterior."
3. The abscess can be totally eradicated and the risk of recrudescence therefore diminished.
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