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A member asked:
My aunt(60)diagnos is osteoartic tb in pakistan.medicin fr mnths:ddnt workd.pain increasd.surg operation next week.is it succesful usualy?need advices
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Not a replacement: to treat a TB in the spine you have to control the original TB now the surgery come and repair the damages that was done to the bone while the TB was there like fusion and support to kill the pain but again it is not a replacement to the TB treatment
Answered 12/9/2014
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