Gout: Multimedia

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Keywords

peripheral arthritis, sodium urate crystals, podagra, hyperuricemia, primary gout, secondary gout, intermediate gout, late-phase gout, pseudogout, tophi, gouty nephropathy, gouty arthritis, first metatarsophalangeal joint pain, probenecid, colchicine, allopurinol, indomethacin

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Christopher D Smelser, DO, Staff Physician, Department of Radiology, William Beaumont Army Medical Center
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