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Progress in diagnosis and treatment of intraspinal tuberculosis

  

  1. 1.Department of Neurology,  General Hospital of PLA,  Beijing 100853,  China;
    2.Medical School,  Nankai University,  Tianjin 300071, China
  • Online:2019-02-20 Published:2019-03-11
  • Contact: Correspondine author:Huang Dehui, Email:huangdehui@gmail.com Yu Shengyuan, Email: yusy1963@126.com

Abstract: Intraspinal tuberculosis includes spinal cord tuberculosis and meningeal tuberculosis. It has the characteristics of low incidence and high mortality. Due to the lack of specificity in clinical and imaging manifestations, low positive rate of auxiliary examination,  clinical diagnosis and followup treatment are often delayed, thus affecting the prognosis of the disease. This paper focuses on the clinical manifestations,  diagnosis,  treatment and progress of intraspinal tuberculosis infection.

Key words: tuberculosis, , spinal;magnetic resonance imaging, staining and labeling, antitubercularagents