The spine is the most common site of skeletal truberculosis. It is still common disease in our country although recent advanced theraphy developed with the many preoventive medicine. 49 cases of tuberculous sponlylitis, proved at the Chosun Univeristy Hospitla, during of Aug. 1973 to Aug, 1979 , were reviewed. The results were as follow : 1. The sex ratio between male and female was 1 : 1.4. Age distribution showed that the group below 10 years was 12%. 2. The ratio between urban and rural was 1 :5. 3. The most frequent site of the involvement was lumbar spine (40.8%), The next was thoracic(28.6%), thoracolumbar(10.2%), lumbosacral(8.2%), sacroiliac (8.2%), cervical(2%), and sacral 92.0%). 4. 51.0 percent was associated with pulmonary tuberculosis and 56.0 percent of them reveal active pulmonary tuberculosis. 5. The major roentgenographic finding were remarkable with destruction of theintervertebral body (91.1%), narrowing of the intervertebral space(81.6%), kyphosis (75.5%), ollapse of the vertebral body (77.6%) cold abscess (65.3%), calcification of the adjacent area(18.4%), formation of the osteophyte(18.4%), 6. There was no relationship between the duration of the diseases and the degree of the involvement of the vertebral body.