Although the real treatment in the vertebral tbc is med'ıcal, in some patient surgery has to be the treatment. İn this study we discussed posterolateral decompression and posterior instrumentation and posterior fusion in chosen cases. 21 female, 18 male of 39 patients having the mean age of39y (16-79) were treated with the mean follow up of 30m (9-57). We reached the greatest degree of correction of the deformity in the literatüre by this method soiving the grafting and biomechanically stable instrumentation problems.
Keywords: Tuberculosis, thorocolumbar, posterior instrumentation