Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the studied patients.

Clinical characteristics	Spinal TB infection	Non-TB spinal infection	Non-infection spinal diseases
	(n = 38)	(n = 53)	(n = 9)
Age, years (mean ± SD)	44.1 ± 15.9	51.4 ± 16.5	49.00 ± 17.2
Female, n (%)	20 (52.6%)	23 (43.4%)	5 (55.6%)
Site of spine lesion, n (%)
Lumbar vertebra	19 (50.0%)	36 (67.9%)	4 (44.4%)
Thoracic vertebra	16 (42.1%)	13 (24.5%)	5 (55.6%)
Cervical vertebra	3 (7.9%)	4 (7.6%)	0 (0.0%)
Clinical symptoms
Fever	13 (34.2%)	31 (58.5%)	0 (0.0%)
Pain	28 (73.7%)	43 (81.1%)	7 (77.8%)
Complications
Pulmonary tuberculosis	7 (18.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Diabetes	8 (21.1%)	17 (32.1%)	1 (11.1%)
Autoimmune disease	5 (13.2%)	9 (17.0%)	0 (0.0%)

N: number of patients, TB: tuberculosis