Cervical myelopathy caused by pseudogout.
A case of pseudogout manifesting as a cervical myelopathy is presented. Surgery can offer the definitive treatment with removal of the compressing crystalline mass. This diagnosis should be considered in a progressive myelopathy in the elderly person shown to have extradural compression, even in the absence of other stigmata of gout.
a Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
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S Norris D T Hope
Chondrocalcinosis;Myelopathy;Pseudogout