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Pott's disease

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An old term for tuberculosis of the spine that caused softening and collapse of the vertebrae, often resulting in kyphosis, a 'hunchback' deformity, which was called 'Pott's curvature.' Named for the English surgeon Sir John Percivall Pott (1714-1788) who described it.

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