Hallux rigidus arthrosis and gout
Mertz, D.P.
Fortschritte der Medizin 100(11): 446-448
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0015-8178 PMID: 7076072 Document Number: 190192
In general, hallux rigidus arthrosis is said to occur in patients suffering from gout more frequently than average, and it should be valued as a symptom of chronic gout. But as a reevaluation of this problem shows, no criteria can be stated as to causal relationship between hyperuricemia (or gout) and hallux rigidus arthrosis. Obesity has to be considered a connecting link between both of them, and it is accelerating their genesis. Hallux rigidus arthrosis represents, like the arthrosis of Heberden the most frequent possibility for confusing it with gout.