Gout presenting as infectious arthritis. Two case reports.
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 76 (2) , 269-273
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199402000-00016
Abstract
We recently saw two patients who had an acutely swollen, painful, and inflamed joint, and in whom a preoperative diagnosis of pyoarthritis had been made. Not until tophaceous material had been visualized during irrigation and debridement was the diagnosis of gout established. Differentiation of a swKeywords
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