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Experiments in Rhinology & Otolaryngology
A Rare Case of Cervical T.B Spine Causing Prevertebral Abscess & Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis of Right Side
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Open or Close George MV*, Regi George AN and Divya Ambooken
Department of ENT, Jubilee Mission Medical College, India
*Corresponding author: George MV, Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Thrissur, India
Submission: August 06, 2018;Published: September 21, 2018
ISSN: 2637-7780Volume2 Issue3
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) of the spine (Pott’s disease) is one of the most common and dangerous form of extra pulmonary TB infection. But Cervical spine tuberculosis is an uncommon form of tuberculosis of the spine. Usually lower thoracic spine is involved, followed by the middle thoracic and finally only the cervical spine gets involved with tuberculosis [1]. In 1779, Percivall Pott, for whom the disease is named, presented the classic description of spinal tuberculosis. TB of the cervical spine also called Morb Pott disease, or tuberculous spondylitis [2]. Spinal caries is the most common and is the most dangerous form of skeletal tuberculosis [2].
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