Spinal caries : (spondylitis or Potts' disease of the spinal column) / by Noble Smith.

  • Smith, E. Noble (Eldred Noble), 1847-1906.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Spinal caries : (spondylitis or Potts' disease of the spinal column) / by Noble Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Wilks. Symptoms had lasted eleven months, and there was severe pain followed by paraplegia. It will be observed in this specimen that the curve produced by the disease is very similar to that of an ordinary case of caries. The eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebrae are eroded by hydatids extending into the tissue round the spinal column, compressing the cord by bulging the dura-mater against it, undermining the pleura. Some of the hydatids are to be seen Pig. 45. Hydatids of Spine. under that membrane. They showed no hooklets nor heads, and they budded from each other's outer surfaces. No other hydatids were present. Death followed paraplegia, and sloughing of the bladder. Fig. 46 (St. George's Hospital Museum, 14a) represents another case of hydatids. They had developed in the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra, extending to the body of the bone. The cavity formed in this part communicated with