Defining surgical indication for instability in spinal tuberculosis: validation analysis of Tuberculosis Spine Instability Score (TSIS)
The TSIS proves to be an excellent discriminative scoring tool with good validity, reliability, responsiveness, and high specificity. It can differentiate between the stable and unstable spine in STB and will provide objective assessments to aid surgical decision-making in this scenario.
Authors
- Pankaj Kandwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8801-6909)
- Nikhil Goyal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0387-4358)
- Bhaskar Sarkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1317-534X)
- Adrian Gardner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6532-7950)
- Aakash Jain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9445-6452)
- Siddharth Sekhar Sethy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4936-7896)
- Aman Verma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2400-1086)
- Vishal Verma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5504-4989)
Institutions
- Aston University (GB)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Bone & Joint Journal
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.107b5.bjj-2024-1438.r1
- Primary Topic
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00