Earliest sign in X-ray in TB spine is: March 2011
Ans. B: Narrowing of disc space Reduction of the disc space is the earliest sign in the commoner, paradiscal type of tuberculosis Skeletal TB: Earliest symptom of spinal TB: Back pain Earliest sign in Pott's disease: Narrowing of disc space MC veebrae to be involved in TB spine: T9-T12 TB spine stas in: Veebral body (paradiscal) Spina ventosa: TB dactylitis
Paraveebral shadow
Narrowing of disc space
Gibbus
Straightening of spinal curves