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Physical Examination
Patients with spinal tuberculosis with active pulmonary infection can have the following physical examination findings:
Appearance of the Patient
Vitals
Lungs
- Decreased breath sounds
- Rales
- Rhonchi
- Bronchial breath sounds
Spine
- Local tenderness
- Stiffness and spasm of the muscles
- Cold abscess : Absence of signs of inflammation
- Palpable gibbus
- Spine deformity
- Kyphosis
Neurologic
Findings suggestive of spinal cord compression include:
- Muscle weakness
- Quadriplegia
- Paraplegia
- Hypotonia
- Loss of deep tendon reflexes
- Numbness
- Paraesthesia