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A retrospective analysis of 434 patients with vertebral tuberculosis who were treated surgically was performed with special reference to the preoperative duration of chemotherapy. Of these, 376 underwent 4 weeks of a chemotherapy regimen with isoniazid, rifampin and ethamburol, and in 2 re-activation of the disease was observed. The remaining 58 underwent operation for neurological impairment with 6–18 h of the same chemotherapy regimen, and in no case did re-activation occur. These results suggest a shorter duration of chemotherapy may be utilised in all patients undergoing surgical treatment for vertebral tuberculosis, providing a thorough debridement is performed, leaving no necrotic or infected tissue behind.
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Received: 1 July 1999
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Alici, E., Akçali, Ö., Tatari, H. et al. Effect of preoperative chemotherapy on the outcome of surgical treatment of vertebral tuberculosis: retrospective analysis of 434 cases. Arch Orth Traum Surg 121, 65–66 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004020000163
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004020000163