Abstract
According to prolonged observation of the patients of paraplegia complicating tuberculosis of the spine, we studied the indication for treatment.
(1) By exclusion of the backabscess communicating to paravertebral abscess, the condition of paralysis became rapidly betteer.
(2) It is important to prevent patients with paraplegia, having a large paravertebral abscess, especially in childhood, from increasing the kyphosis and expending the tuberculous impingement.
(3) Patients with Pott's paraplegia should not be allowed to remain in resting treatment indefinitely. It is difficult to obtain the standard for deciding the indication.
