Tuberculous spondylitis of upper cervical spine at patient with HIV infection
The tuberculosis of occipital condyles combined with tuberculous lesion of C1 and C2 vertebrae is described in literature as “suboccipital tuberculosis”, which is the extremely rare pathology and is accounting to not more than 1,5% among all tuberculous spondilytis. The neurological complications achieves 80- 89% among patients with this pathology and the lethality is 20% in the case of surgical treatment abandoning. These facts dictate the necessary of active surgical strategy which volume is determined by individual features of the process as well as surgeon’s experience. This article describes the clinical case of successful treatment of Приводим описание клинического наблюдения успешного лечения suboccipital tuberculous spondilytis, caused by mycobacteria with multiple drug resistance at patient with HIV-infection.