American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol 17, Issue 1 151-153, Copyright © 1996 by American Society of Neuroradiology
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Gout in the cervical spine: MR pattern mimicking diskovertebral infection
TP Duprez, J Malghem, BC Vande Berg, HM Noel, EA Munting and BE Maldague
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
We report the MR features of a surgically proved cervical spine involved with gouty tophi in a patient with a long history of hyperuricemia. Tophi appeared as sharply delineated areas of low signal intensity on T1 and T2 MR images and showed intense and homogeneous signal enhancement on post-contrast images.
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