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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