Table 2.

Summary of all 18 patients diagnosed as tuberculous myelitis

Age/gender	Clinical features	MRI spine	MRI brain	Cerebrospinal fluid	Sputum	Pulmonary TB	Tuberculous meningitis	Paradoxically developed myelitis	Outcome
30/M	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Altered sensorium	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Extra axial collection	Hydrocephalus Basal exudate Meningeal enhancement Tuberculoma	Protein-1219 mg/dl glucose-36 mg/dl TLC-40/mm3	Negative	Yes	Yes	No	Good
28/F	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Headache Seizure	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Extra axial collection	Basal exudate Tuberculoma	Protein-68 mg/dl glucose -46 mg/dl TLC-15/mm3	Negative	Yes	Yes	No	Good
25/F	Paraparesis Sensory involvement vomiting	Dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement CSF loculations	Tuberculoma	Protein-1825 mg/dl glucose -87 mg/dl TLC-35/mm3	Negative	Yes	Yes	Yes	Poor
19/F	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM)	Normal	Protein-58 mg/dl glucose -57 mg/dl TLC-50/mm3	Positive	Yes	No	Yes	Good
25/F	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement Fever Headache	Dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Meningeal enhancement Tuberculoma	Protein-249 mg/dl glucose -44 mg/dl TLC-318/mm3	Negative	No	Yes	Yes	Good
16/F	Paraparesis Fever Headache Altered sensorium Vomiting	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement CSF loculations Extra axial collection	Basal exudate Meningeal enhancement Tuberculoma	Protein-153 mg/dl glucose -7 mg/dl TLC-50/mm3	Negative	No	Yes	Yes	Good
24/F	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement	Cervical myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Arachnoiditis	Hydrocephalus Basal exudate Meningeal enhancement	Protein-221 mg/dl glucose-20 mg/dl TLC-460/mm3GeneXpert-Positive	Negative	No	Yes	Yes	Good
28/F	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement	Dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Spinal tuberculoma	Tuberculoma	Protein-46 mg/dl glucose -56 mg/dl TLC-70/ mm3	Negative	No	Yes	No	Good
35/M	Quadriparesis Fever Vomiting Altered sensorium	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Hydrocephalus Basal exudates Tuberculoma Optochiasmatic arachnoiditis Meningeal enhancement	Protein-206 mg/dl glucose -56 mg/dl TLC-510/mm3	Negative	No	Yes	No	Good
12/F	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Cord swelling Cervico-medullary area postrema involvement	Normal	Protein-89 mg/dl glucose -46 mg/dl TLC-80/ mm3	Negative	Yes	No	Yes	Good
30/M	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement Headache Altered sensorium	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Hydrocephalus Basal exudates Infract Meningeal enhancement	Protein-501 mg/dl glucose -37 mg/dl TLC-5/ mm3	Negative	No	Yes	No	Poor
28/M	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement	Cervical myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Normal	Protein-120 mg/dl glucose -42 mg/dl TLC-25/ mm3	Negative	Yes	No	No	Good
28/M	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal tuberculoma	Normal	Protein-35 mg/dl glucose -116 mg/dl TLC-5/mm3	Positive	Yes	No	No	Good
25/M	Paraparesis Sensory involvement Sphincter involvement fever	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Arachnoiditis	Normal	Protein-144 mg/dl glucose-45 mg/dl TLC-100/mm3 GeneXpert-Positive	Negative	No	No	No	Poor
25/F	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Headache	Dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement Arachnoiditis	Hydrocephalus Basal exudate Infract Meningeal enhancement	Protein-1371 mg/dl glucose -110 mg/dl TLC-290/mm3	Negative	No	Yes	No	Good
40/M	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Headache Altered sensorium	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Hydrocephalus Basal exudate Tuberculoma Optochiasmatic arachnoiditis Meningeal enhancement	Protein-140 mg/dl glucose-20 mg/dl TLC-290/mm3 GeneXpert-Positive	Positive	Yes	Yes	No	Good
27/F	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Headache vomiting	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement CSF loculation	Tuberculoma Meningeal enhancement	Protein-763 mg/dl glucose -13 mg/dl TLC-520/mm3	Negative	No	Yes	No	Good
20/M	Paraparesis Sphincter involvement Fever Headache Seizure Altered sensorium vomiting	Cervico-dorsal myelitis (LETM) Spinal meningeal enhancement	Hydrocephalus Meningeal enhancement	Protein-58 mg/dl glucose -60 mg/dl TLC-12/mm3	Negative	Yes	Yes	No	Good

LETM, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis; TLC, total leukocyte count