Open AccessEfficacy of extended DOTS category I chemotherapy in spinal tuberculosis based on MRI-based healed status
Author(s) -
Anil K. Jain,
Amit Srivastava,
Namita Singh Saini,
Ish Kumar Dhammi,
Ravi Sreenivasan,
Sudhir Kumar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.104191
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , chemotherapy , surgery , oncology , pathology
Duration of treatment in tuberculosis of spine has always been debatable in the absence of marker of healing. The objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of extended DOTS regimen (2 months of intensive phase and 6 months of continuation phase) as recommended by WHO, by using MRI observations as the healing marker.