ReviewJournal of otology2022
Hearing loss due to urate deposition in the middle ear: A case report and literature review.
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- Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients with Gout: A Population-Level Study in a South Korean National Health Screening Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Tophaceous Gout of the Middle Ear.Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2024Article
- Case Report: A rare case of bilateral middle ear tophaceous gout.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Article
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Abstract
Gout is the most common cause of monoarthritis in men occurring classically in the great toe and the knee. Extra-articular gout manifestations are rare. Only a few cases of head and neck urate crystals deposits have been described in the literature. Precipitations in the middle ear cause conductive hearing loss with common otoscopic anomalies and difficult imaging diagnosis. We report a case of a healthy 58-years-old man with a middle ear urate deposit causing a progressive hearing loss as the very first symptom of gout. The nature of the deposit was unsure on computer tomography (CT) due to atypical density. The final diagnosis was revealed after surgical procedure and histologic examination. A review of the literature is also presented. Seven cases of middle ear urate deposit as the first symptom of gout were found and compared. Progressive conductive hearing loss in middle-aged patients with abnormal otoscopy and middle ear atypical density mass on CT scan must lead to a minimal surgical procedure with a histologic examination to exclude urate crystals deposits.
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