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tophus

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A deposit of monosodium urate crystals in the body, caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood.

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Biopsy confirmed a gout tophus.

Increased vascularity can be seen surrounding the tophus [42].

To report a case with a gouty tophus at the medial canthus.

Note the hyperechoic tophus under the surface of the tendon, causing a slight compressive effect (arrowheads).

Type E, tophus inside the tendon, was found in 1/138 areas (1%).

Once a tophus has developed, this is visible on MRI imaging, but unfortunately the findings are not pathognomonic.

The exclusion criteria were patients who presented with gout but without tophus and patients with other crystal illnesses.

A gouty tophus is an amorphous or crystalline mass of urate with a surrounding layer of inflammatory tissue [43].

Arthroscopic and surgical findings demonstrated tophus inside the tendons, showing the difficulty in recognising the tophus by imaging methods and highlighting the possibility of considering gouty tophi in differential diagnosis of impingement syndrome in patients with chronic tophaceous gout.

A definitive diagnosis of gout is based upon the identification of monosodium urate crystals in synovial fluid or a tophus.

Importantly, NETs are present in the tophus.

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