Cervical gouty myelopathy in two cases at King Abdulaziz Medical City
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gout is a rheumatological disorder found exclusively in human species. It is caused by deposition of crystals of monosodium urate in joints, cartilages, tendons, and soft tissues. Involvement of the spine, however, is rare. In this report, we describe two patients presented to King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah with clinical features of cervical myelopathy, including neck pain, L'hermitte phenomena, quadriparesis and sensory deficit (shoulder level). Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of cervical cord compression with intrinsic cord signal abnormalities. Both patients had laminectomy and intraoperatively; severe canal stenosis was identified. A whitish cheesy material was noticed causing significant root compression. The pathology was diagnostic of gout. In this article, we present two difficult cases with interesting clinical, radiological and pathological findings. We emphasize on the importance of early diagnosis to prevent morbidity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".