Gout in the cervical spine: MR pattern mimicking diskovertebral infection

T P Duprez; J Malghem; B C Vande Berg; H M Noel; E A Munting; B E Maldague

Gout in the cervical spine: MR pattern mimicking diskovertebral infection

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1996 Jan;17(1):151-3.

Authors

T P Duprez¹, J Malghem, B C Vande Berg, H M Noel, E A Munting, B E Maldague

Affiliation

¹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 8770267
PMCID: PMC8337968

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Arthritis, Gouty / diagnosis*
Arthritis, Gouty / pathology
Arthritis, Gouty / surgery
Cervical Vertebrae* / pathology
Cervical Vertebrae* / surgery*
Diagnosis, Differential
Discitis / diagnosis*
Discitis / pathology
Discitis / surgery
Gout / diagnosis*
Gout / pathology
Gout / surgery
Humans
Intervertebral Disc / pathology
Intervertebral Disc / surgery
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Middle Aged
Spinal Osteophytosis / diagnosis*
Spinal Osteophytosis / pathology
Spinal Osteophytosis / surgery
Uric Acid / metabolism

Substances

Uric Acid