Preliminary criteria for the classification of the acute arthritis of primary gout
Stanley L. Wallace(SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University), Harry Robinson(University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Alfonse T. Masi(University of Tennessee at Knoxville), John L. Decker(National Institutes of Health), Daniel J. McCarty(Medical College of Wisconsin), Ts’ai-Fan Yű(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
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Abstract
The American Rheumatism Association sub-committe 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 topus 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.
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