gout
x-ray features:
- multiple, sharply marginated punched out erosions with
sclerotic rims (assymetric in distribution unlike RA)
sometimes associated with soft tissue masses representing
tophi
- good bone denstity (unlike RA)
- "overhanging edge" sign of some erosions
(i.e. well-defined protruding shelf of bone at the margins of erosion)
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