A Scoring System for Outpatient Orthopedist to Preliminarily Distinguish Spinal Metastasis from Spinal Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Analysis of 141 Patients

Table 1

Prevalence and univariate analysis of clinical characteristics of spinal metastasis.

Clinical characteristic	Pathological diagnosis		Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	value
	Spinal metastasis	Spinal TB
Gender = male	48/82	36/59	58.53	38.98	0.767
Age >50 years	53/82	26/59	64.63	55.93	0.015
Malignant tumor history	29/82	6/53	30.49	88.68	0.004
ESR <65 mm/h	68/82	33/53	82.93	37.74	<0.001
CRP <13 mg/L	54/82	14/53	65.85	73.58	<0.001
No subligamentous spread	72/82	6/53	87.80	88.67	<0.001
No paravertebral or psoas abscess	67/82	11/53	81.70	79.25	<0.001
Isolated or skipped vertebral lesions	68/82	8/59	82.93	86.44	<0.001
Vertebral posterior elements destroyed	61/82	14/59	71.76	76.27	<0.001
Preserved intervertebral discs	74/82	8/59	90.24	86.44	<0.001
No sequestra formation	74/82	23/59	90.24	60.02	<0.001