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TOPHACEOUS GOUT OF THE AXIAL SKELETON
Author(s) -
ARNOLD M. H.,
BROOKS P. M.,
SAVVAS P.,
RUFF S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1988.tb01647.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tophus , gout , lamina , axial skeleton , lesion , anatomy , deformity , laminectomy , surgery , uric acid , hyperuricemia , psychiatry , spinal cord
A 72‐year‐old female with a recent episode of podagra, without peripheral tophi, presented with nocturnal back pain and a destructive lesion of the right lamina of L4. A tophus was excised at laminectomy. Evidence of an axial skeletal tophus causing an irritative radiculopathy via mass effect is presented.