Abstract
We report a 17 year old lady with upper thoracic pain and bilateral leg weakness of approximate 3 weeks duration. For the previous 3 weeks she has experienced difficulty in walking. Due to neurologic impairment secondary to cord compression surgery is preformed immediately. The T3 and T4 lesions are approached through an upper thoracotomy and drainage of a paravertebral abscess followed by vertebral corpectomy and interbody fusion with bone harvesting taken from the illiac crest is performed. Then the graft is stabilized with a cervical plate. After surgery the patient started a four drug therapy for tuberculosis (TB) due to active TB.
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