Figure 3.

One patient in the combined group: a-26-year-old man who suffered from L3-4 spinal tuberculosis received posterior fixation, anterior debridement, and bone graft in single or 2-stage procedures. (A–C) The case had collapse of vertebral body, the segmental kyphosis of lumbar, compression of spinal cord due to the psoas abscess. (D) Postoperative x-ray showed that the lumbar lordosis was restored with good location of both bone grafting and internal fixation device. (E, F) One-year final follow-up x-ray showed good bone fusion. (G, H) The x-ray films showed that there was no instability or looseness of the internal fixation at 6 years.