Clinical Observations on the Bone and Joint Tuberculosis

Abstract

Sixy-eight patients with tuberculous spondylitis or arthritis were observed. According to analysis of these cases, there were forty-three in the spine, eight in the hip, four in the knee and thirteen in others. Surgical procedures were required in twenty out of sixty-eight. There were tendency of increasing incidence in old age. Occasionary it was difficult to differentiate spinal tumor from spondylitis tuberculosa in old age.