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Pott's disease

TB spondylitis

  • TB is most common infection of pediatric spine

  • paraspinal abscess
  • +/- calcification

DDx:

  • nontuberculous spondylitis
  • primary or metastatic neoplasm (rarely only at 1 level)
  • histiocytosis (usually --> collapse {vert plana})

Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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