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    Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria can spread from the lungs to the spine, causing Pott's disease. The bacteria infects the intervertebral disk between the vertebrae, killing the disk tissue and leading to bone destruction and collapse of the vertebrae, which can cause back pain, restricted movement, and damage to the spinal cord.

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    Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria can spread from the lungs to the spine, causing Pott's disease. The bacteria infects the intervertebral disk between the vertebrae, killing the disk tissue and leading to bone destruction and collapse of the vertebrae, which can cause back pain, restricted movement, and damage to the spinal cord.

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    Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria can spread from the lungs to the spine, causing Pott's disease. The bacteria infects the intervertebral disk between the vertebrae, killing the disk tissue and leading to bone destruction and collapse of the vertebrae, which can cause back pain, restricted movement, and damage to the spinal cord.

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    Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria can spread from the lungs to the spine, causing Pott's disease. The bacteria infects the intervertebral disk between the vertebrae, killing the disk tissue and leading to bone destruction and collapse of the vertebrae, which can cause back pain, restricted movement, and damage to the spinal cord.

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    PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

    Exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Spread of M. tuberculosis from other parts

    Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

    Infection spreads to the intervertebral disk in the T12L1 of the spine

    Disk tissue dies and broken down by caesation

    Progressive bone destruction

    -Persistent back pain -Restricted spinal movements

    Vertebral collapse

    Gibbus formation

    Caesation take place

    Spinal cord damage

    Potts disease

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