Anterior drainage of distal lumbar and sacral Pott abcess is rather difficult ihan upper localizaiions as majör vessel compiicaîions are Hkely to occur. İn thi$ study the results of one patient with L2-L3 and two patients with L5-S1 localized vertebral tubercuiosis were evaluated who had posterior laminectomy, abcess drainage through the intervertebral disc space, curetage of devasted corpus materiat foilowed by posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PUF) by using autogeneus graft. M e an age was 35 years and two of the patients were male, one was female. İn ali the patients a short segment Texas Scottish Rite Hospital System Intrumentation was performed. Mean follow-up vvas 12 months. At theirlast Controls ali the patients had a soiid fusion mass. İn light of these findings İt İs sug-gested that the method we presented can be a good treatment alternative in such patients with such a rare tuber-culous abcess iocalization.
Keywords: Spinal infection, spinai tubercuiosis, lumbar, sacral posterior instrumentation