Is bone tuberculosis well treated?

Bone tuberculosis is a common disease secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis. Bone tuberculosis is completely curable with standardized and systematic treatment. However, some bone tuberculosis, such as spinal tuberculosis secondary to nerve damage, is difficult to cure completely. The common site of infection of bone tuberculosis is the spine, including the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. The infection of tuberculosis can destroy the vertebral body and attachments, leading to deformation of the vertebral body and the formation of cold abscesses with necrotic material, which affects the stability of the spine and can compress the adjacent nerves, especially the spinal cord, leading to spinal nerve injury. For treatment, surgery for removal of tuberculosis lesions is given along with anti-tuberculosis, and bone tuberculosis can be cured after surgery and standardized anti-tuberculosis treatment. However, if there is nerve damage, especially secondary to spinal cord injury, it is difficult to fully recover the nerve function after surgery.