Gout, a metabolic disorder, is commonly accepted as a peripheral joint disease of the appendicular skeleton by the deposition of monosodium urate crystals. Gouty involvement of the spinal column is rare. In this paper, we report a case of spinal gout with spondylolisthesis, meanwhile, we review the clinical, radiological features, diagnosis and treatment of spinal gout in literature. The patien...

objectives: nowadays, spinal cord lesions, specially its injury, is one of the diseases/injuries that human-being is been affected by. it not only causes irreversible economical/social/cultural problems & uncompensated costs to the patient’s family & society but also, makes active peoples to inactive & needy ones. till now, there is no successful treatment for these patients so this ailment, it...

In advanced age the bony mineralization is reduce and causes osteophoretic change, resulting osleolytic lesion and pathological fracture. During injury the spinal column and spinal cord can be injured anywhere along their length. The majority of the damage to spinal cord occurs at the time of injury. But further damage can be caused by improper handling of the unstable spine and by disruption o...

The involvement of spinal column in cyst hydatid disease is rare and hard to treat. The gold standard treatment is total removal of the cysts without rupture. However, recurrence after surgery is almost inevitable and reoperations carries technical difficulties and higher morbidity. We present a 69-year-old woman with two cystic masses at the T12 level, which compress the spinal...