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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2010

A patient was delivered to the admission ward 40 minutes after a minor trauma with complaints of pain in the thoracic spine. He has a history of pulmonary tuberculosis. Roentgenography results: suspected compression fracture of the VIII and IX thoracic vertebrae. What pathological process in spine might have stimulated pathological fracture of vertebral bodies?

Answer options

  1. Tuberculous spondylitis
  2. Traumatic fracture
  3. Syphilis
  4. Malignant tumour metastasis
  5. Osteomyelitis
Correct answer

Tuberculous spondylitis

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