Clinical Presentation and Disease Associations of Gout: A Hospital-based Study of 100 Patients in Singapore

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-10

  Koh, W H ^a   Seah, A ^a   Chai, P ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Associated disease; Clinical features; Oriental; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROBENECID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PSORIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0031980641     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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