title: [Difference of CT and MRI in Diagnosis of Spinal Tuberculosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the imaging features and diagnostic value of MRI and CT in diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis by comparing study.
  
  
  METHODS
  From May 2014 to December 2014, 32 patients with spinal tuberculosis were diagnosed as patients with spinal tuberculosis, and the data of MRI and CT were retrospectively analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients with lesions appeared respectively in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine; CT diagnosis of bone destruction and vertebral disc soft tissue injury rate is lower than that of MRI, the intervertebral disc injury diagnosed rate higher than that of MRI, P < 0.05, the difference is statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CT and MRI in the diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis imaging studies are different, and combination of both can improve the diagnosis rate, can prevent and treat in a timely manner, so as to improve the treatment effect.
authors.forename: Ruifang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009333:Neck; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000175:diagnosis*