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Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in many LMIC. Though small, the incidence of extrapulmonary TB is increasing worldwide, with the spine involved in 50 % of cases.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Dortyol State Hospital, Hatay, 31500, Turkey

    Z. Deniz Olgun MD

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Sihhiye, Ankara, 06100, Turkey

    Muharrem Yazici MD

  3. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David A. Spiegel MD (Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery)

  4. Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children, Janagal, Kavre, Nepal

    David A. Spiegel MD (Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery)

  5. Department of Orthopaedics, Spine and Traumatology, King Edward Medical University and Mayo Hospital, 8-Golf Lane, GOR-1, Lahore, Punjab, 54000, Pakistan

    Syed Muhammad Awais MBBS (Pb), MCPS-Surgery (CPSP), M.S.-Orth (Pb), MSc BioEng (Dun)

  6. Spine Services, Department of Orthopedics, Grande International Hospital Limited, Binayak Basti – 16, Balaju, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal

    Binod Bijukachhe MBBS, MS (Ortho.), AO Fellow – Spine

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Spiegel

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    Michelle Foltz

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Olgun, Z.D., Yazici, M., Spiegel, D.A., Awais, S.M., Bijukachhe, B. (2014). Tuberculosis. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7_33

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