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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Tubercular Spondylitis

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The presentation of the use of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in the management of tubercular spondylitis (TS) is the scope of this chapter. Spinal tuberculosis (TB) usually responds to chemotherapy alone. However, the need for surgery in active stage is increasingly being recognized in the event of worsening neurological deficit and spinal instability. In the absence of major deformity, the major goal of surgery in (TS) is to achieve adequate cord decompression and debridement of the surrounding diseased tissue to achieve good healing with fusion. In this chapter, the role of VATS in (TS) is discussed. Its indication, contraindications, planning, surgical techniques, complications, and results as relevant to TB of the spine are elaborated.

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Abbreviations

(D4-D9):

Dorsal 4th–9th vertebrae

ICS:

Intercostal space

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

TB:

Tuberculosis

TS:

Tubercular spondylitis

VATS:

Video-assisted thoracic surgery

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Singh, R. (2017). Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Tubercular Spondylitis. In: Turgut, M., Akhaddar, A., Turgut, A., Garg, R. (eds) Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50712-5_21

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