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

Table 2

Multivariate analysis of clinical characteristics of spinal metastasis.

Clinical characteristics	Regression coefficient (β)	value	Odds ratio (OR)
Malignant tumor history	2.362	0.007	10.615
No subligamentous spread	1.617	0.029	5.040
Vertebral posterior elements destroyed	2.199	0.004	9.018
Preserved intervertebral discs	2.779	0.001	16.102
No sequestra formation	2.183	0.014	8.871