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Acute gout after carpal tunnel release
S N Graff1, J G Seiler, J B Jupiter
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|November 1, 1992
Abstract:
A carpal tunnel release was performed on three patients with known gout of the lower extremity but not of the upper extremity. Each patient had a postoperative inflammatory reaction in a treated hand, and there was some suspicion of an infection in two patients. However, the inflammatory reaction resolved only when treated with a combination of anti-inflammatory and anti-gout medication.