• Tracy Kilborn, Pieter Janse van Rensburg, and Sally Candy.
• Department of Pediatric Radiology, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa. Electronic address: tracykilborn@gmail.com.
• Neuroimaging Clin. N. Am. 2015 May 1;25(2):209-31.

AbstractThe 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.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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