[Results of surgical treatment of complicated forms of tuberculous spondylitis].
The results of surgical treatment of tuberculous spondylitis were studied in 93 patients, including 45 patients living in poor environmental areas (Group 1) and 48 residing in good environmental areas (Group 2). The patients underwent clinical, laboratory, X-ray tomographic, ultrasound, functional, and electric neuromyographic studies. Analysis of the results of the study established that despite their short histories of the disease, in Group 1 patients, there was affliction of more than 3 vertebrae in 58.1% of the cases, spinal cord dysfunction in 42.2%, decreased bone tissue sound conductivity in 8-12% as compared with Group 2 patients. A comparative deceleration of graft joining was found in 52.4% of the patients. Complete recovery of spinal cord function occurred in 87.3% of the cases. A complex conservative and pathogenetic and pathogenetic (osteogenon and shilajat-asil) and early surgical treatment of tuberculous spondylitis was ascertained to enhance the efficiency of therapy and to reduce the length of hospital stay to 1 month.