Pott's disease in the children: the contribution of the radiology [50 cases]

ABSTRACT

Pott's disease is still a public health problem. The diagnosis must be precocious. The radiology is necessary and permits also to value the evolutivity of the disease and the therapeutic efficiency. In this study, we report 50 cases of pott's disease in the child and we insist on the elements of the precocious diagnosis especialy, we are based on radiologic examinations. The radiologic images are divided into discal infections in 47 cases of anterior cuneiform agglomeration that causes the gibbosity in 31 cases and geods in 10 cases. The abscesses are found in 30 cases and stored reach in 5 cases. We conclude from this study the important profile of the radiologic exploration in the orientation of the diagnosis of the tuberculous spondylodicitis in early stage without missing the usefulness of the new methods of medical imageries [scintigaphia, TDM, IRM] that permit to arrive at the diagnosis of lott's disease before the conventional radiographies