Figure 1.
Examples of categories of spinal lesions due to tuberculosis used in this study.
All cases presented here are from the Galler Collection and are fully described in Appendix S1. A) Autopsy Number: 1645, Autopsy Year: 1957, No evidence of “healing.” B) Autopsy Number: 411, Autopsy Year: 1955, fusion of vertebrae has occurred. C) Autopsy Number: 2461, Autopsy Year: 1969, bone has been deposited on the anterior bodies of affected vertebrae. D) Autopsy Number: 785, Autopsy Year: 1963, posterior elements (as well as vertebral bodies) have fused. Scale bar represents 10 mm.
Figure 2.
Autopsy Number: 751, Autopsy Year: 1939, Age: 35, Sex: Male.
Table 1.
Overview of the cases of tuberculosis from the Galler Collection (Switzerland).
Figure 3.
Autopsy Number: 793, Autopsy Year: 1936, Age: 78, Sex: Female.
Figure 4.
Autopsy Number: 732, Autopsy Year: 1949, Age: 65, Sex: Female.
Figure 5.
Autopsy Number: 901, Autopsy Year: 1948, Age: 52, Sex: Female.
Figure 6.
Autopsy Number: 1697, Autopsy Year: 1956, Age: 67, Sex: Female.
Figure 7.
Autopsy Number: 387, Autopsy Year: 1963, Age: 52, Sex: Female.
Figure 8.
Autopsy Number: 7, Autopsy Year: 1928, Age: 30, Sex: Female.
Figure 9.
Autopsy Number: 262, Autopsy Year: 1948, Age: No information, Sex: No information.
Figure 10.
Autopsy Number: 779, Autopsy Year: 1953, Age: 50, Sex: Female.
Figure 11.
Autopsy Number: 5717, Autopsy Year: 1964, Age: 36, Sex: Female.
Figure 12.
Autopsy Number: 325, Autopsy Year: 1936, Age: 16, Sex: Male.
Figure 13.
Autopsy Number: 144, Autopsy Year: 1938, Age: 36, Sex: Male.
Figure 14.
Autopsy Number: 304, Autopsy Year: 1947, Age: 37, Sex: Male.
Figure 15.
Number of cases from the Galler Collection for each category of healing of bone lesions due to tuberculosis through time (N = 25).
Cases that received surgery (N = 4) were excluded.
Figure 16.
Percentage distribution through time of individuals from the Galler Collection with one region (single) and more than one region (multiple) of the body affected by tuberculosis.
Average age of death (filled diamonds) is also plotted on the secondary (right) ordinate. Light and dark shading correspond to single and multiple foci, respectively.
Table 2.
Number of cases of tuberculosis affecting various soft tissues (and skeleton) of individuals in the Galler Collection (N = 69).
Table 3.
Summary of individuals with diagnosed tuberculosis of multiple regions of the body from the Galler Collection (N = 16).
Table 4.
Co-morbidities by time period associated with introduction and use of pharmacological interventions.
Table 5.
Summary of cases of spinal tuberculosis (TB) from the pre-antibiotic literature for comparison with this study.