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This is a condition of compression myelopathy secondary to gouty tophus, usually associated with hyperuricemia, which is uncontrolled for a long time leading supersaturation of tissue fluids.
Abstracted from Saketkoo et al. (2009)
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Saketkoo LA, Robertson HJ, Dyer HR, Virk ZU, Ferreyro HR, Espinoza LR. Axial gouty arthropathy. Am J Med Sci. 2009;338(2):140–6.
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Eltorai, I.M. (2016). Compression Myelopathy due to Tophaceous Gout. In: Rare Diseases and Syndromes of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45147-3_35
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