OBJECTIVES: To analyze the factors which differentiate chronic tophaceous arthritis from rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS: We describe two cases of chronic gouty arthritis masquerading as rheumatoid ...

Within the group of patients with musculoskeletal disease, 9,642 patients with gout (3,890 women) were compared with 48,230 controls (19,450 women), matched for age and sex, for the incidence of ...

Patients with confirmed tophi and more frequent acute gout attacks ... patients who reported symptoms of inadequately controlled chronic gout (similar to refractory chronic gout), defined here ...

The third phase, inter-critical gout, is a period between acute attacks when the patient is symptom-free. Finally, chronic ...