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

Table 5

Correlation analysis between STB and PTB.

Variate	Type	With PTB		Without PTB		Total
			%		%
Gender	Male	146	64.60	133	40.30	279	31.680	<0.001
	Female	80	35.4	197	59.7	277
Systemic toxicity symptoms	Yes	91	40.71	151	45.76	242	1.646	0.200
	No	135	59.29	179	54.24	314
Abscess	Yes	158	69.91	131	39.70	349	49.059	<0.001
	No	68	30.09	199	60.3	207
Neurological injury	Yes	171	75.66	129	39.09	300	72.219	<0.001
	No	55	24.34	201	60.91	256
Surgery	Yes	196	86.73	308	93.33	504	6.908	0.009
	No	30	13.27	22	6.67	52
Prognosis	Cure	186	82.30	300	90.90	486	9.032	0.003
	Other	40	17.7	30	9.1	70