[Theoretical basis for and the results of using bone marrow-devoid spongy allografts in the surgery of tuberculous spondylitis in adults].

Experimental studies over 189 animals have proved that spongy allografts, devoid of the bone marrow, possess high plastic properties, get very soon replaced with a newly formed bone tissue and reconstruct. Experimental and clinical findings advocate, the rationality of their use of antero-lateral spondylodesis in tuberculous spondylitis.