Objective:The purpose of this study is to report epidemiological and clinical data of the patients that were admitted with spinal gunshot injuries. Methods: This was retrospective study and observational study. Patients who had a spinal injury secondary to a gunshot wound that was admitted to our hospital (level III trauma center) from July 2018 through July 2020 were included in the study. Demographic and clinical data including age, gender, civil status, occupation, level of injury (cervical, thoracic, or lumbar), degree of neurological impairment at admission, associated injuries, treatment established, length of hospital stay, and mortality rate were recorded. Results: A total of 55 patients were included in the study, of which 50 patients (90.9%) were men and five female patients (9.09%). The average age was 30.2 years. Three patients died during hospitalization representing a mortality rate of 5.45%. Conclusions: Spinal gunshot injuries are associated with significant sequelae, requiring long and costly treatments. This study obtained one of the highest incidences of gunshot injuries to the spine reported in the literature.

Objective: To compare the efficiency of the 4 most used surgical techniques for the management of tuberculous spondylitis. Method: Retrospective study in which adult patients with a confirmed diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis, involvement of two vertebral levels or less, and without severe vertebral deformity were included. The medical records, imaging studies, and demographic data of the operated patients were collected and reviewed to retrospectively analyze the clinical results of each group. The primary variables were cure of infection, spinal fusion, and complications. The secondary variables included intraoperative bleeding, hospital stay, and surgical time. Results: There were no significant differences (p ≥ 0.05) in most of the variables analyzed; however, there were (p ≤ 0.001) regarding bleeding, surgical time, hospital stay and complications between the groups analyzed, with a lower result in all cases for the single posterior approach. Conclusions: The single posterior approach obtained a clinical efficacy similar to the rest of the approaches in terms of eradication of the infection and vertebral fusion, however, it was associated with less surgical invasion (surgical time and bleeding), a shorter hospital stay and complications.