Tophaceous gout of the first costochondral junction in a heart transplant patient.

Skeletal Radiol

Department of Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 165-57, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6952, USA.

Published: September 2006

We report the case of a 49-year-old man with a 10-year history of gout, who presented with a painful left first costochondral junction mass. A computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy of the mass revealed foreign body giant cell reaction and crystalline deposition consistent with tophaceous gout.

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