This was a cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted at Neurology Department, Shaab Teaching Hospital, Khartoum in a period of two years. The aim of the study was to determine the most affected region of the spine in adult Sudanese patients with Pott's disease. Hundred patients with clinical suspicion of spinal TB were enrolled in the study. Clinical history and examination, investigations for TB and imaging studies were performed. Midthoracic spines (T5 – T8) and lower thoracic spines (T9 – T12) were found to be the most regions affected with tuberculosis. In 20 cases (20%) the disease affected the upper thoracic vertebrae (T1 – T4) and in 12 cases (12%) it was in the lumbar spines. Only four patients (4%) were having cervical spinal tuberculosis. The higher affection of the mid thoracic and lower thoracic levels of the spine was thought to be attributed to infection from combination of haematogeneous, lymphatic and direct invasion.
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Pott's Disease, Spinal Tb, Skeletal Tuberculosis, Kyphosis
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author = {Elwathiq Khalid Ibrahim and Elbashir Gusm Elbari Ahmed and Nour Eldaim Elnoman Elbadawi and Mamoun Majzoub Mohammed},
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abstract = {This was a cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted at Neurology Department, Shaab Teaching Hospital, Khartoum in a period of two years. The aim of the study was to determine the most affected region of the spine in adult Sudanese patients with Pott's disease. Hundred patients with clinical suspicion of spinal TB were enrolled in the study. Clinical history and examination, investigations for TB and imaging studies were performed. Midthoracic spines (T5 – T8) and lower thoracic spines (T9 – T12) were found to be the most regions affected with tuberculosis. In 20 cases (20%) the disease affected the upper thoracic vertebrae (T1 – T4) and in 12 cases (12%) it was in the lumbar spines. Only four patients (4%) were having cervical spinal tuberculosis. The higher affection of the mid thoracic and lower thoracic levels of the spine was thought to be attributed to infection from combination of haematogeneous, lymphatic and direct invasion.},
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