MR image and CT scan of a tuberculous abscess in the gluteus maximus muscle

✍ Scribed by Katsuhiro Toda; Yuji Yasunaga; Shouzui Takemoto; Yoritaka Terada

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 330 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/s0895-6111(98)00046-9

✦ Synopsis

A 77-year-old man had rapidly increased intramuscular tuberculous abscess in his left buttock. Radiographs showed a bone defect in the left ischium. Postcontrast CT scanning revealed marginal enhancement. MR imaging showed low signal intensity on T1-weighted images and high signal intensity on T2-weighted images. T1-weighted MR images with Gd-DTPA enhancement showed enhancement of the wall. Bone defect and marginal enhancement on postcontrast MR images and on postcontrast CT images are image character of the intramuscular tuberculous abscess.