Bone and joint tuberculosis removal

Bone and joint tuberculosis are mostly secondary to tuberculosis and digestive system tuberculosis. It is still more common in rural and mountainous areas. The basic therapy for bone and joint tuberculosis is to rest, increase nutrition and restrict local activities. Carrying out focus removal on the basis of antituberculosis drug treatment can greatly improve the curative effect and shorten the course of treatment. Debridement is a surgical method that directly enters the tuberculosis lesion, removing cold abscesses, dead bone, tuberculous granulation tissue, necrotic tissue, and hypertrophic synovial tissue as much as possible. However, although bone and joint tuberculosis lesion removal therapy has many advantages, not all patients with bone and joint tuberculosis need surgery, and only those patients with indications and systemic conditions that allow surgery are required. There have also been many advances in modern non-surgical treatments. For example, early diagnosis and early non-surgical treatments (including rest, nutrition, medication and local injection) can cure some bone and joint tuberculosis, especially infants The repair ability is strong, and non-surgical treatment should be adopted first. Although lesion removal is an important link in the treatment of certain bone and joint tuberculosis, it is not the only link, and it cannot replace other therapies. Bone and joint tuberculosis is a local manifestation of systemic tuberculosis, which can only be based on systemic and drug treatment. Perform lesion removal.

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