Chronic tophaceous gout causing lumbar spinal stenosis
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Tophaceous gout causing lumbar stenosis
RATIONALE Gout in the spine is very rare. The clinical symptoms of the spinal gout are various and lack of specificity. The authors report a case of spinal gout causing lumbar stenosis. We never find such wide-invasive spinal gouty lesion in the published studies. PATIENT CONCERNS A 68-year-old male had low back pain radiating to bilateral lower limbs, accompanying with intermittent claudicat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1930-0433
DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.11.017