Difference TB and brucellosis In Disc

Question 1

Clinical and radiological features that discriminate between spine
involvement in TB and brucellosis
ركز

Answer 1

1-المكان
*Dorsolumbar in TB
*Lumbar and others in brucella.
2- Discitis:
Early in tb,late in Brucellosis.
3- loss of morphology of body of vertebrea :
*Early in TB,late in Brucellosis.
4-Canal compression:
*Earlt in tb,late in Brucellosis.
5-psoas abcess:
*Common in TB
7-Epidural abcess:
Common in TB
8-osteophyteعضم جديد بيتكون
In brucella
9-Gibbus تحدب وانحناء
In TB
10-vartebrae affected
Contagious متتالية in TB, multiple or contagious in brucella