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- Title
An uncommon case of gouty arthritis in a teenage boy.
- Authors
Ain Farah Abdul Rhahman; Nurul Izaa Mohamad; Soo Huat Teoh
- Abstract
Joint pain is a common complaint in the paediatric age group with overuse and traumatic injury being the common causes. However, joint pain involving multiple sites, persistent or recurrent, and severe may suggest other diagnoses. One of the possible groups of diagnosis is rheumatology in nature, which is often difficult to diagnose, especially in paediatric patients. Gouty arthritis is a rather uncommon rheumatology problem in children and the diagnosis is often missed at the initial presentation. We report a 16-year-old boy who repeatedly presented with debilitating and alternating polyarthritis, diagnosed and treated as juvenile gouty arthritis after thorough clinical assessment and basic laboratory investigations in a resource-limited primary care clinic.
- Subjects
TEENAGE boys; ARTHRITIS; CHILD patients; DIAGNOSIS; JOINT pain
- Publication
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 1, p200
- ISSN
2223-4721
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3329/bjms.v20i1.50372