Surgery as an adjunct to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis
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| Search set | MEDLINE (PubMED) | EMBASE (on Dialog) |
| (1) | Tuberculosis, spinal/ | Tuberculosis‐spondylitis/ |
| (2) | tuberculosis spondylitis[tw] | tuberculosis spondylitis[tw] |
| (3) | spinal tuberculosis [tw] | spinal tuberculosis[tw] |
| (4) | spinal TB[tw] | spinal TB[tw] |
| (5) | vertebral tuberculosis[tw] | vertebral tuberculosis[tw] |
| (6) | Pott disease[tw] | Pott disease[tw] |
| (7) | Pott's disease[tw] | Pott's disease[tw] |
| (8) | Pott paraplegia[tw] | Pott paraplegia[tw] |
| (9) | 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 o7 or 8 | 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 o7 or 8 |
| (10) | limit 9 to human | limit 9 to human |
| / = MeSH term; tw = textword | / = EMTREE; tw = textword |
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