Urate crystal deposition in asymptomatic hyperuricaemia and symptomatic gout: A dual energy CT study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 908-911

  Dalbeth, Nicola ^a   House, Meaghan E ^a   Aati, Opetaia ^a   Tan, Paul ^a   Franklin, Christopher ^a   Horne, Anne ^a   Gamble, Gregory D ^a   Stamp, Lisa K ^b   Doyle, Anthony J ^a   McQueen, Fiona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URATE; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URATE CRYSTAL DEPOSITION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOT; FOOT JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; TENDON;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT JOINTS; GOUT; HUMANS; HYPERURICEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URIC ACID;

EID: 84926624187     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206397     Document Type: Article

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