Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report

Abstract

Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months’ duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months.

Keywords

• Spine tuberculosis
• late spine decompression
• neurological recovery