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MeSH Heading: Tuberculosis, Spinal
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.410.040.552.846.617.525.722; C01.160.886.722; C05.116.165.886.722; C05.116.900.853.850
Unique ID: D014399
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014399
Annotation: coordinate IM with specific vertebra (IM); do not confuse entry term POTT DISEASE with POTT-PUFFY TUMOR
Scope Note: Osteitis or caries of the vertebrae, usually occurring as a complication of tuberculosis of the lungs.
Entry Term(s): Pott Disease; Pott's Disease; Pott's Paraplegia
NLM Classification #: WE 253
See Also: Pott Puffy Tumor
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2021/10/18

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Tuberculosis, Spinal MeSH Descriptor Data 2023