HYPERURICEMIA WITH GOUT TOPHI IN HEBERDEN S NODES

Authors
PETERSEIM U VONGIZYCKINIENHAUS B SCHATTENKIRCHNER M MEURER M
Citation
U. Peterseim et al., HYPERURICEMIA WITH GOUT TOPHI IN HEBERDEN S NODES, Hautarzt, 45(11), 1994, pp. 799-802
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Hautarzt → ACNP
ISSN journal
00178470
Volume
45
Issue
11
Year of publication
1994
Pages
799 - 802
Database
ISI
SICI code
0017-8470(1994)45:11<799:HWGTIH>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The tophus is a characteristic and pathognomonic sign of chronic gout. Before effective drugs were available for the treatment of hyperurica emia about 50-60% of patients with gout developed clinically and radio logically apparent urate crystal deposits. Clinical cutaneous manifest ations of chronic gout are now rarely observed. However, the presence of degenerative tissues, as in idiopathic osteoarthritis of the finger s, may predispose to the deposition of urate crystals. We report on a patient with secondary - probably diuretic-induced - hyperuricaemia an d gout tophi in Heberden's nodes.