Retrospective Evaluation of Short-Course versus Traditional Preoperative Chemotherapy in Thoracolumbar Spinal Tuberculosis Patients

12 September 2023: Clinical Research

Lin Chen ^ABCDEFG , Jun Zhang ^ABCDEFG*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.941003

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941003

Table 2 Changes of pain VAS score after operation and last follow-up in 2 groups.

Items	Preoperative	1 week after surgery	Last follow-up
Short-course intensive chemotherapy group	6.54±2.31	2.74±0.68	1.25±0.35
Traditional quadruple chemotherapy group	6.21±1.92	2.24±0.49	1.24±0.31
	0.274	0.423	0.641
	0.731	0.683	0.381