Early debridement improves outcome in managing ankle tuberculosis: a systematic review

Conclusions: Early debridement is recommended to improve outcome in managing ankle TB. This review is limited by the lack of high evidence level studies from high-quality randomized controlled trials, lack of control groups, heterogenous outcomes reporting, small sample sizes, and no objective scoring were used to report the outcomes. However, larger sample sizes with long-term follow-up data were not found. Level of Evidence: Level IV.
Source: Current Orthopaedic Practice - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Original Research Source Type: research