Preliminary criteria for the classification of the acute arthritis of primary gout
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Arthritis & Rheumatism
- Vol. 20 (3), 895-900
- https://doi.org/10.1002/art.1780200320
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.Keywords
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