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Tuberculosis of the Spine

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  • Describes the latest advances in diagnostic methods for tuberculosis of the spine
  • Simplifies learning with well elucidated pictorial representation
  • Presents evidence-based, algorithmic, simplified representation of this complex disease

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

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About this book

This book covers all aspects and dimensions of tuberculosis affecting the spine, starting from its historical perspective to modern trends in early diagnosis, management, and rehabilitation. This book is a treatise fulfilling all the existing wide lacunae in suspicion, clinical examination, diagnosis, and management of this disease which still dwells as a mystery in modern medicine. It presents very easy to follow management plan algorithms and keynotes for easy and ready reference in each chapter. It describes the recent advances in diagnostic modalities and the treatment regimes, along with controversies, that have been elucidated and concluded with firm and sound references from evidence-based literature. This book also showcases the varied presentations of the disease as per varied socio-economic strata and in different geographic regions along with the different, principle-based approach to the disease spectrum shall be discussed at length. It also includes different clinical settings and scenarios in the concerned chapters. This book is a ready reference guide for postgraduate trainees, post-doctoral trainees, and faculty and consultants of orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Orthopaedics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt, Vishal Kumar

About the editors

Dr Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt is an Professor of Orthopaedics at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has specialised in Trauma and Complex Spine Surgery.  He has won many International awards in this field and done international fellowships from Shoichi Kokubun, Sendai Japan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NY USA, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, USA, Brigham and Women’s Harvard Medical School, USA, Leicester General and Kings College Hospital, London UK, Rigshospitalet National University Hospital, Copenhagen Denmark and is an Indo American Spine Alliance Visiting Prof, University of Illinois, Chicago USA. He has to his credit three patents and around 100 publications as well and has authored 3 books. He is also International Committee member, Eurospine; Member Feedback Committee, North American Spine Society, Joint Secretary, North Zone Orthopaedic Association and Associate Editor, JPMER.

 

Dr Vishal Kumar MS, DNB, MAMS, Dip. SICOT, FACS, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Eng) is presently working as an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India- a premier institute and a state of the art teaching hospital of the country. His area of interests and specialization is spine and complex trauma. He has fine tuned his specialist training through several international and national fellowships at centres of international standing and repute including Oxford University Hospitals, Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery at QMC, Nottingham, University of Leeds, Dartmouth Hitchcock Centre, USA to name a few. He has several indexed publications, edited a textbook of Orthopaedics, and written more than ten chapters in textbooks. He has won more than twenty five international and national awards including Abdel Hay Masshour SICOT International Award.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tuberculosis of the Spine

  • Editors: Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt, Vishal Kumar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9495-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9494-3Published: 28 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9497-4Published: 29 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9495-0Published: 27 April 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 79 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Orthopedics, Medicine/Public Health, general

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