Advertisement for orthosearch.org.uk
Results 1 - 1 of 1
Results per page:
Applied filters
The Bone & Joint Journal

Include Proceedings
Dates
Year From

Year To
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 49-B, Issue 4 | Pages 668 - 673
1 Nov 1967
Kohli SB

1. The results are recorded of radical excisional surgery for spinal tuberculosis in eighty-five patients.

2. Clinically satisfactory results were obtained in 97 per cent of seventy-one patients followed up. Radiologically the disease was deemed to be cured in 71 per cent of cases.

3. The average period of rest after operation was three and a half months, and the average hospital stay was five and a half months.

4. Total recovery from paraplegia occurred in 84 per cent of patients so affected.