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Juvenile intraosseous gout of the calcaneus

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Gout presenting as an osteolytic lesion is exceedingly rare in children with asymptomatic hyperuricemia. We report the clinical and radiological presentation of intraosseous gout in a 13-year-old boy.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, No. 92, Sec. 2, Chung-Shan N. Road, Taipei, 104, Taiwan

    Chun-Ho Yun, Yang-Kai Fang & Yu-Chung Hung

  2. Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital and Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shin-Lin Shih & Jon-Kway Huang

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Yun, CH., Shih, SL., Fang, YK. et al. Juvenile intraosseous gout of the calcaneus. Pediatr Radiol 35, 899–901 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-1475-x

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