title: Gout in the cervical spine: MR pattern mimicking diskovertebral infection.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Duprez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malghem
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Vande Berg
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Noel
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Munting
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Maldague
mesh_terms: D015210:Arthritis, Gouty / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015299:Discitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006073:Gout / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013128:Spinal Osteophytosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid