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. 1996 Jan;17(1):151-3.

Gout in the cervical spine: MR pattern mimicking diskovertebral infection.

T P Duprez 1, J Malghem 1, B C Vande Berg 1, H M Noel 1, E A Munting 1, B E Maldague 1
PMCID: PMC8337968  PMID: 8770267

Abstract

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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