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  • Title: Tophaceous gout of the axial skeleton.
    Author: Arnold MH, Brooks PM, Savvas P, Ruff S.
    Journal: Aust N Z J Med; 1988 Dec; 18(7):865-7. PubMed ID: 2977940.
    Abstract:
    A 72-year-old female with a recent episode of podagra, without peripheral tophi, presented with nocturnal back pain and a destructive lesion of the right lamina of L4. A tophus was excised at laminectomy. Evidence of an axial skeletal tophus causing an irritative radiculopathy via mass effect is presented.
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