A Rare Case of Lateral Canthal Gouty Tophus Presenting as an Eyelid Mass

A 41-year-old man with a history of gout presented with an enlarging eyelid growth. Clinical examination revealed a mildly indurated nodule at the lateral canthus. Following resection, histopathological examination revealed needle-shaped, crystalline material surrounded by multinucleated giant cells...

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Autores principales: Nakatsuka, Austin S., McDevitt, Timothy F., Tauchi-Nishi, Pamela S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27891274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9786810
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description A 41-year-old man with a history of gout presented with an enlarging eyelid growth. Clinical examination revealed a mildly indurated nodule at the lateral canthus. Following resection, histopathological examination revealed needle-shaped, crystalline material surrounded by multinucleated giant cells, findings consistent with gouty tophus. This represents just the sixth case of gouty tophus of the eyelid reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-51163392016-11-27 A Rare Case of Lateral Canthal Gouty Tophus Presenting as an Eyelid Mass Nakatsuka, Austin S. McDevitt, Timothy F. Tauchi-Nishi, Pamela S. Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report A 41-year-old man with a history of gout presented with an enlarging eyelid growth. Clinical examination revealed a mildly indurated nodule at the lateral canthus. Following resection, histopathological examination revealed needle-shaped, crystalline material surrounded by multinucleated giant cells, findings consistent with gouty tophus. This represents just the sixth case of gouty tophus of the eyelid reported in the literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5116339/ /pubmed/27891274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9786810 Text en Copyright © 2016 Austin S. Nakatsuka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116339/
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