Tophaceous mitral valve
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 79-82
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000478-198201000-00010
Abstract
A tophus was identified in a surgically resected, prolapsed mitral valve in a patient with tophaceous gout. It had the characteristic histologie pattern and contained birefringent, dichroic crystals consistent with uric acid. This represented an incidental finding.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: