Surfer's myelopathy is a nontraumatic paraparesis/paraplegia that affects first-time surfers. Although most patients have a complete or near-complete recovery, complete paraplegia has occurred.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cape Town is the center of an HIV-tuberculosis coepidemic. This study's aim was to highlight the importance and to describe the MR imaging features of tuberculosis in acute myelopathy and cauda equina syndrome in HIV-positive adults. To accomplish this we retrospectively reviewed the MR imaging and clinico-pathologic findings of HIV-positive patients presenting to our hospital with recent onset paraplegia and sphincter dysfunction over a 4-year period, 2008 -2011.