Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique (1990)
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Bull Soc Pathol Exot · Nov 2002
Editorial Biography Historical Article[Archives of the Tropical Medicine Society: F. Mesnil].
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It is a retrospective study, reviewing all cases of vertebral tuberculosis recorded between 1989 and 1999 in La Rabta Hospital (Tunis). 29 patients have been included whose average age was 49 years. The main symptoms which appeared within a average period of six months were vertebral pain, associated with fever in half of the cases. ⋯ The diagnosis of infection was confirmed by characteristic histological pattern and/or culture biopsy. 27 patients were cured without complications except for 2 of them who developed a spinal cord compression. This complication was quickly stemmed by steroid therapy.