ACUTE ATTACK OF GOUT TRIGGERED BY ALLOPURINOL: 202
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Acute gout attack in the wrist joint.
joint, a condition known as podagra. In the order of decreasing frequency, joint involvements of gout include the instep, the ankle, the knee, the wrist and the fingers. Here, we describe a rare case of arthritis in the wrist joint caused by an acute gout attack. A 58-year-old man woke up in the early morning of March 23, 2002, due to a pain in his right wrist joint. He had never undergone a me...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198507000-00222