Spinal and sacroiliac gouty arthritis: report of a case and review of the literature

Fabiano Nassar Cardoso; Patrick Omoumi; Gregoire Wieers; Baudouin Maldague; Jacques Malghem; Frédéric E Lecouvet; Bruno C Vande Berg

doi:10.1177/2047981614549269

Spinal and sacroiliac gouty arthritis: report of a case and review of the literature

Acta Radiol Short Rep. 2014 Sep 17;3(8):2047981614549269. doi: 10.1177/2047981614549269. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Fabiano Nassar Cardoso¹, Patrick Omoumi², Gregoire Wieers³, Baudouin Maldague², Jacques Malghem², Frédéric E Lecouvet², Bruno C Vande Berg²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital Sao Paulo, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo - UNIFESP; Escola Paulista de Medicina - EPM; Sao Paulo, Brazil ; Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
² Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

Abstract

In this case report, we describe an "uncommon" case of axial gouty arthropathy in a 69-year-old woman with bilateral sciatica that was thoroughly evaluated with conventional radiography, CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy, and PET-CT. Axial gouty arthropathy should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic low back pain, mainly when several risk factors for gout are present.

Keywords: CT scan; MRI; PET-CT; Spine; bone scintigraphy; gouty arthropathy; radiography; sacroiliac.

Publication types

Case Reports