Tophaceous Gout of the Patella: A Report of Two Cases

Introduction. Tophaceous gout of the patella is rare and may masquerade as a tumour or tumour-like condition. Cases. We report two patients with gout involving the patella, one complicated by a pathological fracture and the other occurring in a bipartite patella in a young adult. Discussion. Typical...

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Autores principales: Hopper, Graeme, Gupta, Sanjay, Bethapudi, Sarath, Ritchie, David, MacDuff, Elaine, Mahendra, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/253693
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Bethapudi, Sarath
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MacDuff, Elaine
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description Introduction. Tophaceous gout of the patella is rare and may masquerade as a tumour or tumour-like condition. Cases. We report two patients with gout involving the patella, one complicated by a pathological fracture and the other occurring in a bipartite patella in a young adult. Discussion. Typical imaging appearances and measurement of serum urate will usually confirm the diagnosis but, occasionally, the serum urate level may be normal in active gout and in such cases, a biopsy will be required. Conclusion. Gout of the patella may masquerade as a tumour or tumour-like condition and it is important to consider gout in the differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-35028292012-11-29 Tophaceous Gout of the Patella: A Report of Two Cases Hopper, Graeme Gupta, Sanjay Bethapudi, Sarath Ritchie, David MacDuff, Elaine Mahendra, Ashish Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report Introduction. Tophaceous gout of the patella is rare and may masquerade as a tumour or tumour-like condition. Cases. We report two patients with gout involving the patella, one complicated by a pathological fracture and the other occurring in a bipartite patella in a young adult. Discussion. Typical imaging appearances and measurement of serum urate will usually confirm the diagnosis but, occasionally, the serum urate level may be normal in active gout and in such cases, a biopsy will be required. Conclusion. Gout of the patella may masquerade as a tumour or tumour-like condition and it is important to consider gout in the differential diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3502829/ /pubmed/23198243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/253693 Text en Copyright © 2012 Graeme Hopper et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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