Volume 13, Issue 3 e9426
CASE REPORT
Open Access

Spinal gout recovery with urate-lowering therapy: A case report

Kunfang Huo

Kunfang Huo

Department of Nephrology, Immunology and Hematology, The Fifth People's Hospital of Shunde District, Foshan, China

Contribution: Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

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Jialin Zhang

Jialin Zhang

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan, China

Contribution: Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

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Yanhua Lin

Yanhua Lin

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan, China

Contribution: Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation

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Qianyun Chen

Qianyun Chen

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan, China

Contribution: Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation

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Han Zhong

Han Zhong

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan, China

Contribution: Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation

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Bin Yang

Corresponding Author

Bin Yang

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan, China

Correspondence

Bin Yang, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde), Foshan 528000, China.

Email: [email protected]

Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, ​Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

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First published: 20 March 2025

Kunfang Huo and Jialin Zhang contributed equally to this work.

Key Clinical Message

The occurrence of spinal gout resulting in erosion of the superior articular process in patients with low back pain is uncommon, potentially leading to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. Urate-lowering therapy may be beneficial in improving joint destruction and bone erosion, as evidenced by our case.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data may become available upon reasonable requests to the corresponding author.

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