A 36-year-old woman presented with lower extremity paralysis. Her past medical history
included gout. Conventional radiography and MR imaging revealed bone erosion and soft …

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Tophaceous gout uncommonly affects the axial skeleton.
The clinical presentations of gout of the spine range from back pain to quadriplegia. Gout …

AIM: To define the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of tophaceous gout of the
spine. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We present the MR imaging examinations of 4 patients …

Gout is a well described metabolic abnormality, the pathologic hallmark of which is the
tophus (1, 2). Radiologists traditionally encounter this disorder when interpreting …

Gout is a common cause of inflammatory arthritis, typically affecting the joints of the
appendicular skeleton. In this report, we present the relatively less common scenario of …

✓ Symptomatic gout tophi of the spine are a rare but well-characterized complication of
tophaceous gout. The authors report the case of a 29-year-old previously healthy man who …

Spinal gout is not as rare as was previously thought and mimics heterogeneous spinal
conditions such as rheumatoid, septic, seronegative arthropathies and primary or secondary …

Objective To improve neurologists' awareness of spine gout by showing a rare case of
tophaceous gout in thoracic spine and a summary of vertebral gout in order. Material and …

A patient with chronic tophaceous gouty arthritis developed paraparesis due to medullar
compression from a urate sodium tophus. We report the MRI features of this tophaceous …

We present the case of a 74-year-old patient with long-standing gout who developed C4-C5
tophaceous gout causing cord compression. The patient had undergone 4 years earlier for a …