Inflammatory gout: observations over a half-century.

This is a discussion of acute gouty arthritis, seen for over 50 years of engagement. It addresses the evolution of our current understanding of the interaction between urate crystals and key cellular components of the gouty inflammatory paroxysm, with new material on pathogenesis.

[Scanning electron microscopy of the vestibular surface of the stapes in otospongiosis].

The authors, going on with their investigations of the otospongiotic micro-foci by means of scanning electron microscopy method, state their discoveries concerning the micro-foci of the footplates vestibular side, left aside too often up to now. On this vestibular side of the footplate, they have managed to find much more numerous pathological alterations than usually admitted. There are three types of lesions: 1.