Painful knee locking caused by gouty tophi successfully treated with allopurinol

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 675-679

  Chatterjee, Soumya ^a   Ilaslan, Hakan ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMLODIPINE; COLCHICINE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; NARCOTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIAMTERENE; URATE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GOUT; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; ALLOPURINOL; ARTHRALGIA; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE;

EID: 57149108465     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0945     Document Type: Article

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