• Radiology · May 1989

    Comparative Study

    Brucellar and tuberculous spondylitis: comparative imaging features.

    • H S Sharif, O A Aideyan, D C Clark, M M Madkour, M Y Aabed, T A Mattsson, S M al-Deeb, and K R Moutaery.
    • Department of Radiology, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
    • Radiology. 1989 May 1; 171 (2): 419-25.

    AbstractRadiographs, scintigrams, computed tomographic scans, and magnetic resonance (MR) images of 17 patients with brucellar spondylitis and 15 with tuberculous spondylitis were analyzed to identify distinguishing features. Characteristic findings of brucellar spondylitis included predilection for the lower lumbar spine (68% of lesions), bone destruction limited to the end plates, disk collapse (16 of 19 disks), and granulation tissue or localized soft-tissue edema (17 of 19 sites). MR imaging showed diffuse increased signal in vertebrae and disks on long repetition time (TR)/echo time (TE) images in four patients and focal increased signal with normal disks in one. Epidural extension was best seen on short TR/TE images in four. Tuberculous spondylitis was characterized by predilection for the midthoracic spine (73%), vertebral destruction with gibbus deformity (60%), disk collapse, and paraspinal abscesses (14 of 15). On MR images signal intensity of affected vertebrae was similar to but more severe than findings in patients with brucellar spondylitis. Scintigraphy was the least helpful in differentiating the two infections. Lesions of tuberculous spondylitis affecting the lower lumbar spine were difficult to differentiate from those of brucellar spondylitis.

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