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Preliminary criteria for the classification of the acute arthritis of primary gout

✍ Scribed by Stanley L. Wallace; Harry Robinson; Alfonse T. Masi; John L. Decker; Daniel J. Mccarty; T'sai-fan Yü


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
477 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-3591

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The American Rheumatism Association subcommittee on classification criteria for gout analyzed data from more than 700 patients with gout, pseudogout, rheumatoid arthritis, or septic arthritis. Criteria for classifying a patient as having gout were a) the presence of characteristic urate crystals in the joint fluid, and/or b) a tophus proved to contain urate crystals by chemical or polarized light microscopic means, and/or c) the presence of six of the twelve clinical, laboratory, and X‐ray phenomena listed in Table 5.


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