Posterior Instrumentation for Treatment of Active Dorsolumbar Tuberculosis with Kyphosis / 대한정형외과학회잡지

ABSTRACT

Since researches and clinical experiences up to now provide us with little helps in predicting what type of spinal tuberculosis will result in good healing by chemotherapy alone without kyphosis or with minimum kyphosis, it seems impractical to await natural healing with unsightly kyphosis. Therefore, my opinion is that surgery to achieve early cure and to correct and/or prevent kyphosis is desirable. The two-stage operation