[Posteriorinstrumental spinal fixation in tuberculous spondylitis and osteomyelitis of the vertebral bodies].

The short- and long-term results of surgical treatment were studied in 74 patients with tuberculous spondylitis and in 20 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of the vertebral column. All the patients underwent radical reconstructive operations on the anterior vertebral column if they had an active inflammatory process. The operations were supplemented by an interstitial posterior instrumental fixation with the Hurrington manipulation reduction frames or the plates, developed at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, in 11 cases and with the Cotrel-Dubosse tools in 28 cases. The Cotrel-Dubosse tools were shown to have significant advantages in correcting kyphosis and preventing graft resorption and chronic pain syndrome in tuberculous spondylitis.