RETRACTED ARTICLE: Clinical efficacy of posterior versus anterior instrumentation for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis in adults: a meta-analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of studies included in the meta-analysis

Study	Year of publication	Country	Sample size	Follow-up, mo	Group A			Group B
Study	Year of publication	Country	Sample size	Follow-up, mo	Sample size	Age in years (mean ± SD)	Male (%)	Sample size	Age in years (mean)	Male (%)
Garg et al.[12]	2012	India	70	5 to 14	36	33.6	NA	34	34.9	NA
Lee et al.[11]	2006	Korea	17	6 to 42	10	63.70 ± 5.43	4 (40)	7	49 ± 15.87	1 (14)
Ma et al.[10]	2012	China	157	22 to 72	83	39.8 ± 1.3	32 (39)	74	38.3 ± 1.3	33 (45)
Pu et al.[3]	2012	China	47	12 to 62	25	38.1	10 (40)	22	37.8	7 (32)

group A posterior instrumentation group, group B anterior instrumentation group, NA not applicable.

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