• Spine · Apr 2018

    Case Reports

    Spinal Gout Without Spinal Symptom in a Junior School Student: A Case Report.

    • Danbin Wu, Jiajian Ma, Songsong Li, Jinwei Zhao, and Ling Li.
    • Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
    • Spine. 2018 Apr 15; 43 (8): E488-E491.

    Study DesignCase report.ObjectiveWe report a case of a 16-year-old boy with intermittent and migratory polyarthralgia, who made a diagnostic dilemma.Summary Of Background DataSpinal involvement without spinal symptom in gout seems to be rare. However, the relationship of spinal gout to symptoms is poorly understood.MethodsDescription of the case report.ResultsLaboratory findings cannot explain his symptoms; however, a computed tomography of the pelvis revealed the presence of space-occupying lesion involving the left side of spine at L5-S1 level, and the later biopsy revealed that was a urate crystal, which help us make the diagnosis of spinal gout.ConclusionGout can be a cunning disease which has various manifestations, and spinal involvement can be asymptomatic.Level Of Evidence5.

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