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During recent years tuberculous spondylitis has become relatively uncommon, whereas osteomyelitis of septic origin has increased in frequency. The symptomatology of pyogenic osteomyelitis of the spine has been described by several earlier authors. It is difficult to differetiate from other diseases, especially tuberculous spondylitis. The diagnosis is often delayed or missed completely. Therefore, bacteriological and pathological investigations by the trephine biopsy to the spine, are most impotant on the diagnosis and therapy for infectious disease of the spine.
