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  • Title: Pediatric and adult spinal tuberculosis: imaging and pathophysiology.
    Author: Kilborn T, Janse van Rensburg P, Candy S.
    Journal: Neuroimaging Clin N Am; 2015 May; 25(2):209-31. PubMed ID: 25952174.
    Abstract:
    The prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) has increased in developing and developed countries as a consequence of the AIDS epidemic, immigration, social deprivation, and inadequate TB control and screening programs. Spinal TB may be osseous or nonosseous. Classic findings of multiple contiguous vertebral body involvement, gibbus formation, and subligamentous spread with paravertebral abscesses are optimally evaluated with MR imaging. Nonspondylitic spinal TB is less well described in the literature, may develop in the absence of TB meningitis, and is often associated with meningovascular cord ischemia. Radiologists should be familiar with the spectrum of imaging findings, allowing early diagnosis and treatment of this serious condition.
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