This book covers all aspects and dimensions of tuberculosis affecting the spine, starting from its historical perspective to modern trends in early diagnosis, management, and rehabilitation. This book is a treatise fulfilling all the existing wide lacunae in suspicion, clinical examination, diagnosis, and management of this disease which still dwells as a mystery in modern medicine. It presents very easy to follow management plan algorithms and keynotes for easy and ready reference in each chapter. It describes the recent advances in diagnostic modalities and the treatment regimes, along with controversies, that have been elucidated and concluded with firm and sound references from evidence-based literature. This book also showcases the varied presentations of the disease as per varied socio-economic strata and in different geographic regions along with the different, principle-based approach to the disease spectrum shall be discussed at length. It also includes different clinical settings and scenarios in the concerned chapters. This book is a ready reference guide for postgraduate trainees, post-doctoral trainees, and faculty and consultants of orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Dr Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt is an Professor of Orthopaedics at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has specialised in Trauma and Complex Spine Surgery.  He has won many International awards in this field and done international fellowships from Shoichi Kokubun, Sendai Japan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NY USA, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, USA, Brigham and Womens Harvard Medical School, USA, Leicester General and Kings College Hospital, London UK, Rigshospitalet National University Hospital, Copenhagen Denmark and is an Indo American Spine Alliance Visiting Prof, University of Illinois, Chicago USA. He has to his credit three patents and around 100 publications as well and has authored 3 books. He is also International Committee member, Eurospine; Member Feedback Committee, North American Spine Society, Joint Secretary, North Zone Orthopaedic Association and Associate Editor, JPMER.

 

Dr Vishal KumarMS, DNB, MAMS, Dip. SICOT, FACS, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Eng)is presently working as an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education& Research, Chandigarh, India- a premier institute and a state of the art teaching hospital of the country. His area of interests and specialization is spine and complex trauma. He has fine tuned his specialist training through several international and national fellowships at centres of international standing and repute including Oxford University Hospitals, Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery at QMC, Nottingham, University of Leeds, Dartmouth Hitchcock Centre, USA to name a few. He has several indexed publications, edited a textbook of Orthopaedics, and written more than ten chapters in textbooks. He has won more than twenty five international and national awards including Abdel Hay Masshour SICOT International Award.

1 Historical perspectives of musculoskeletal tuberculosis.- 2 History of tuberculosis spine (post att era).- 3 Epidemiology of Tuberculosis of Spine.- 4 Anatomy and pathophysiology of TB spine.- 5 Clinical presentation, features and examination of a case of suspected tuberculosis.- 6 Microbiological diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis.- 7 Diagnostic Modalities in TB Spine - Clinical Laboratory diagnosis and technological advancements.- 8 Radiology in TB spine (X-rays, ultrasound, CT, MRI).- 9 Role of Nuclear Medicine in TB Spine.- 10 FNAC and Biopsy Techniques in TB Spine.- 11 Differential diagnosis of Spinal Infections.- 12 TB spine in children.- 13 The Medical management of spinal tuberculosis.- 14 Multidrug Resistance and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Management Protocols.- 15 Complications and Management in Tuberculosis of the Spine.- 16 Surgical management of in TB spine indications and overview with postoperative protocols.- 17 Surgical Management of Cervical Spine Tuberculosis.- 18 Anterior Surgical Approaches- TB Spine.- 19 Posterior approach for TB Spine.- 20 Lateral Extracavitary Approach in the Surgical Management of Tuberculosis of the Spine.- 21 Drug eluting ceramics in the field of spinal infections.- 22 Extensile approaches to the spine in Tuberculosis.- 23 Role of Full Endoscopic Procedures in management of Tuberculosis of Spine.- 24 Surgical treatment of TB kyphosis.- 25 Post Tuberculosis Sagittal Balance of the Spine Challenges and Approach.- 26 TB spine in special conditions.- 27 Advancements in the Surgical Management of Spinal Tuberculosis.- 28 End point for TB spine?.