A treatise on orthopedic surgery . ly confined to oneor two adjacent bodies. Erom this central point it may extendindefinitely in either direction, but in ordinary cases the finalarea of deformity and rigidity shows that from three to sixbodies are more or less involved before cure is established. If the disease is limited in extent, the eroded surfaces of theadjoining vertebrae may come into direct contact; but if severalvertebral bodies have been destroyed, the upper portion of thespine as it sinks downward is often displaced backward, so thatthe anterior part of one or more of the upper seg
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . ly confined to oneor two adjacent bodies. Erom this central point it may extendindefinitely in either direction, but in ordinary cases the finalarea of deformity and rigidity shows that from three to sixbodies are more or less involved before cure is established. If the disease is limited in extent, the eroded surfaces of theadjoining vertebrae may come into direct contact; but if severalvertebral bodies have been destroyed, the upper portion of thespine as it sinks downward is often displaced backward, so thatthe anterior part of one or more of the upper segments maybe apposed to the superior surface of the first body of the lowersection (Fig, 3). Less often there may be forward displace-ment of the upper part upon the lower (Fig. 1). TUBEBCULOUS DISEASE OF TEE SPINE. 21 At all stages of the disease resistance to its progress is evidentin the affected Repair is accomplished occasionally by contact and solidnnion of the adjoining surfaces qi softened bone; but usually Fig. Fig. 4.
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