The advanced imaging of gouty tophi

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-235

  Gentili, Amilcare ^a  

^a Thornton Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URATE; URIC ACID;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GOUT; GOUTY TOPHUS; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GOUT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747605517     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-996-0030-6     Document Type: Article

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