False-Negative Dual-Energy Computed Tomography in a Patient With Acute Gout
- 1 April 2012
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
- Vol. 18 (3), 138-141
- https://doi.org/10.1097/rhu.0b013e318253aa5e
Abstract
Gout is a painful inflammatory arthropathy caused by crystallization of monosodium urate within the joints. We present the case of a patient with primary gout who had positive results of joint aspiration and synovial biopsy for monosodium urate crystals in the third metacarpophalangeal joint but false-negative results of dual-energy computed tomography.Keywords
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