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Orthopaedic Surgery, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 1464-1477, May 2025.This study compares the biomechanical effects of three anterior fixation systems in thoracolumbar surgery—HXTL, NHXTL, and Medtronic's CD Horizon ANTERIOR. Finite element analysis evaluates stress and displacement across vertebral bodies and support structures under varying load conditions. Results indicate the HXTL system minimizes nail–rod stress yet
Xuehai Jia +7 more
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary
Alexandre Harari +118 more
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Spinal tuberculosis: a comprehensive review for the modern spine surgeon.
The spine journal, 2019 Nearly one-third of the human population is infected with tuberculosis. Of those with active disease, approximately 10% are impacted by skeletal tuberculosis.
Krishn Khanna, S. Sabharwal
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Challenges and controversies in the treatment of spinal tuberculosis
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2020 Current guidelines regarding management of spinal TB are mostly extrapolated from trials on pulmonary disease. Since the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) trials in the 1970s, there are not many good quality studies that substantiate best practice ...
Aakriti Pandita +3 more
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From Culture to Sequencing: Evolving Strategies for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Spondylodiscitis
Orthopaedic Surgery, EarlyView.Diagnostic approaches to pediatric spondylodiscitis have evolved from culture‐based methods with limited sensitivity to advanced molecular and sequencing technologies. Metagenomic next‐generation sequencing (mNGS) enables rapid, culture‐independent pathogen identification, improving diagnostic accuracy, guiding therapy, and reducing invasive procedures
Viola Sbampato +4 more
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BioRePortAP, an electronic clinical record coupled with a database : an example of its use in a single [PDF]
, 2010 Aims: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists in the Rheumatology Department of Hospital de Santa Maria using the BioRePortAP.
Campanilho-Marques, R. +9 more
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BioMed Research International, 2020 Background Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic disease in Guizhou. Spinal TB accounts for approximately 50% cases of skeletal TB. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics and management of patients treated for spinal TB in a certain ...
Peng Wang +5 more
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Orthopaedic Surgery, EarlyView.Selective Intersegmental Laminectomy with Irrigation (SILI) technology enables effective spinal epidural abscess (SEA) evacuation via hydrodynamic bidirectional flow, significantly reducing inflammation and enhancing functional recovery while preserving spinal anatomy.
Han Zhang +7 more
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A Rare Presentation of Invasive Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System in an Immunocompetent Patient in a Nonendemic Country. [PDF]
, 2018 We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old immunocompetent male patient with disseminated tuberculosis of central nervous system (CNS), first presenting as multiple cerebral lesions with no meningeal involvement. Subsequent diagnostic workup disclosed
Campillo, J +3 more
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Disease Markers, 2020 Background Macrophages are important immune cells involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection. To further investigate the degree of disease development in patients with spinal tuberculosis (TB), we conducted research on macrophage ...
Liang Wang +9 more
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