[Spinal tuberculosis. Epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects: a study of 28 clinical observations].

Objective: To rapidly diagnose spinal tuberculosis in order to improve its prognosis.

Methods: A retrospective study of 28 clinical observations of patients treated in the neurosurgery department of Yopougon's University Teaching Hospital during a 7-year period (January 1994-December 2000). The diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis was established based on clinical, radiological microbiological and histologic arguments.