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Pott's disease
(redirected from tuberculous spondylitis)

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Pott's disease [′päts di‚zēz]
(medicine)
Abnormal backward curvature of the spine caused by tuberculous osteitis.


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Differentiation of vertebral osteomyelitis and tuberculous spondylitis by magnetic resonance imaging.
Radiographic manifestations of tuberculous spondylitis include destroyed vertebrae with associated intraosseous and paraspinal abscess formation, subligamentous spread of infection, extension into the spinal epidural space, vertebral body collapse, and focal gibbus formation.
 
 
 
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