TY - JOUR T1 - Anterior Instrumentation for the Treatment of Spinal Tuberculosis AU - Faraj, Adnan A. AU - Yilmaz, Cengiz AU - Selek, Hakan AU - Gürkan, Ilksen AU - Erdemli, Bülent AU - Korkusuz, Zeki Y1 - 2001/03/01 N1 - JO - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery SP - 463 EP - 463 VL - 83 IS - 3 N2 - I was interested in the article "Anterior Instrumentation for the Treatment of Spinal Tuberculosis" (81-A: 1261-1267, Sept. 1999), by Yilmaz et al., as I have seen anterior spinal instrumentation used for the treatment of tuberculosis of the cervical spine at the Center for Spinal Study and Surgery in Nottingham. I would appreciate the authors’ comments on the use of anterior spinal instrumentation early in the disease process in an attempt to stabilize the spine following radical débridement and bone-grafting. SN - 0021-9355 M3 - doi: UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ER -