TY - JOUR
AU - HENDERSON, MELVIN S.
AB - 
        The mortality rate in tuberculosis of the spine is high and the patient carries a high potentiality for disability and crippling. Practically all of the many methods of treatment depend on recumbency or support by aid of some sort of apparatus to keep the superimposed weight off the affected area. Seventeen years ago operative fusion, the first real departure from time-honored methods, was advocated. Hibbs,1 in 1911, reported his operation of fusion of the laminae and spinous processes in cases of progressive spinal deformity, and in the autumn of the same year Albee2 reported his method of transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott's disease. Since then many articles have appeared in the literature, particularly in the American literature, attempting to establish the actual worth of the procedure. Since the object of both the Hibbs and the Albee methods is fusion of the
      
TI - OPERATIVE FUSION FOR TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SPINE
JO - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700270049012
DA - 1929-01-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/operative-fusion-for-tuberculosis-of-the-spine-gQncHmdpEx
SP - 45
EP - 48
VL - 92
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -