Persistence of monosodium urate crystals and low‐grade inflammation in the synovial fluid of patients with untreated gout

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 141-145

  Pascual, Eliseo ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Campus de San Juan   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; GOUT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GOUT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGE; NEUTROPHILS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNOVIAL FLUID; URIC ACID;

EID: 0025971753     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780340203     Document Type: Article

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