Research Article

Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of 556 Spinal Tuberculosis Patients in Two Tertiary Teaching Hospitals in Guangxi Province

Table 3

Imaging findings of patients with STB.

YearLesion sitesInvolved number of vertebraeAbscessTotal
CCTTTLLLSS12≥3YesNo

201128185212474112392160
20122410415236259231740
201312104172342312261339
201411831421521421930
20152312314226275241438
201612274372375712482876
2017383974942892127636112
201823304422296511493685
201924273334375316433376
Total16351813724222235940493349207556
Rate (%)2.886.2932.556.6543.533.964.1410.6172.6616.7362.7737.23
27.85017.3544.976
0.9910.3630.760

C: cervical; CT: cervicothoracic; T: thoracic; TL: thoracolumbar; L: lumbar; LS: lumbosacral; S: sacrococcygeal.