Inaugural cervical spinal location of gout: A case report

Abidou Kawélé Coulibaly, MD; Imen Henchiri, MD; Marine Meunier, MD; Bernadette Saint-Marcoux, MD

Radiology Case Reports (Nov 2024)

Inaugural cervical spinal location of gout: A case report

Abidou Kawélé Coulibaly, MD,
Imen Henchiri, MD,
Marine Meunier, MD,
Bernadette Saint-Marcoux, MD

Affiliations

Abidou Kawélé Coulibaly, MD: Rheumatology Department, Cocody University Hospital, BP V 13 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Robert Ballanger Intercommunal Hospital, Aulnay, Sous-Bois, France; Corresponding author.
Imen Henchiri, MD: Robert Ballanger Intercommunal Hospital, Aulnay, Sous-Bois, France
Marine Meunier, MD: Robert Ballanger Intercommunal Hospital, Aulnay, Sous-Bois, France
Bernadette Saint-Marcoux, MD: Robert Ballanger Intercommunal Hospital, Aulnay, Sous-Bois, France

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 19, no. 11
pp. 5238 – 5240

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Gout is a crystalline arthropathy associated with prolonged body overload with uric acid. The most common sites are the distal joints of the lower limbs and the spine is rare. We report a case of gout with an initial cervical location of spondylodiscitis with epiduritis in a 62-year-old patient.

Published in Radiology Case Reports

ISSN: 1930-0433 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/radiology-case-reports

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