RESUMEN Un tercio de la poblacion mundial esta infectada por tuberculosis. Afecta pulmones, y en el 33% otros organos. La tuberculosis vertebral ocurre en menos del 1% de los pacientes, es mas frecuente en ninos. Las manifestaciones clinicas mas comunes son: el dolor y la limitacion funcional. En etapas avanzadas presenta una giba dorsal, y alteraciones neurologicas. Para contribuir al conocimiento de caracteristicas clinicas, el hecho de ser VIH negativo y la confi rmacion histopatologica que se correlacionaron con los estudios de imagen, nos lleva a difundir el caso que describimos, con excelente respuesta al tratamiento farmaco quirurgico. Palabras clave: Tuberculosis Extrapulmonar, Enfermedad de Pott, Paraplejia, Absceso Paravertebral. VERTEBRAL TUBERCULOSIS AND COMPRESSION OF THE SPINAL CORD ABSTRACT A third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs, in 33% of the cases it affects other organs. Vertebral tuberculosis occurs in less than 1% of patients, and it more frequently affects children. The most common clinical symptoms are pain and functional limitation. In advanced stages it can cause a dorsal hump, and neurological alterations. We present the case of a 28-year old female patient with lumbar pain and gait disturbance that has evolved over a two-month period. This case had a succesful diagnosis and treatment, reported herein as a contribution to the knowledge of clinical and laboratory characteristics. This is an HIV-negative patient who was Ziehl-Nielsen positive. Pathological fi ndings correlated with imagenologic results. Key words: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Pott’s Disease, Paraplegia, Paravertebral Abscess.