Abstract: Background: Tuberculosis is a specific infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, affects all ages. Spinal tuberculosis is the most common form of skeletal tuberculosis. Treatment of skeletal tuberculosis include antitubercular drugs and surgery was confined to patients failing to respond to drugs or those with complications.
Material and Methods: A prospective study was done from June 2015 to July 2017 including 25 patients with thoracic and lumbar tuberculosis of spine admitted in Ruxmaniben Deepchand Gardi Medical College (RDGMC) Ujjain, fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the patients were treated with antitubercular drugs followed by debridement, decompression and pedicle screw fixation via posterior approach. All the patients were assessed with Frankel grading and Visual analogue scale (VAS). All patients were followed up at monthly interval. Clinical assessment regarding functional outcome was done at the final follow-up.
Result and Conclusion: All the 25 selected patients were assessed clinically, radiologically and on the basis of functional outcome. Excellent result was obtained in 15 cases, Good in 9 cases and Poor in 1 case. All the collected data from this study were analysed statistically.
