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Figure 1: Common clinical features of tuberculosis spine in Nigeria: (a) A painful gibbus in a 16-year-young lady at the thoracolumbar region and (b and c) plain X-ray of the same lady showing complete collapse and disappearance of L2 vertebral body and angular kyphosis with no neurological deficit; (d) another painful thoracolumbar gibbus in a 20-year-old man with paraspinal cold abscess extending to the right lumbar triangle and paraparesis (e and f) plain X-ray of the same man showing wedge collapse fracture of L2 vertebral body and angular kyphosis |
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