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This paper considers some clinical aspects of gout with special reference to the epidemiology of hyperuricaemia and the clinical presentation of gout and its differential diagnosis.
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This paper is dedicated to my friend and colleague, Nepomuk Zöllner, who has done so much to help clinicians to understand the nature of gout and how best to treat it.
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Woods, H.F. (1989). Clinical Aspects of Gout. In: Wolfram, G. (eds) Genetic and Therapeutic Aspects of Lipid and Purine Metabolism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61322-7_16
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