Gicht MRT

Tophaceous

gout of the ankle joint. Sagittal gradient echo image shows no blooming artefacts (red arrows).

Tophaceous

gout of the ankle joint. Sagittal Gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed T1-weighted image shows marked enhancement of the mass (red arrows).

Pseudotumoural

soft tissue lesions of the foot and ankle: a pictorial review. Tophaceus gout. Short-axis T1-WI (a), sagittal fat-suppressed T2-WI (b) and short-axis fat-suppressed contrast-enhanced T1-WI (c): The gouty tophus (short arrows) is isointense to muscle on T1-WI and of heterogeneous SI on T2-WI. The lesion displays heterogeneous enhancement (arrowheads). There is evidence of erosive joint disease at the metatarsophalangeal joints (long arrows)