Giant abdominal urate tumor-like mass with multiple crystalline deposits in the bowel and lung walls in a patent with terminal heart failure

Abstract

The paper describes a unique case of a large abdominal urate mass with a peculiar inflammatory process with giant cells and smaller urate deposits in the lung and small bowel without articular changes and kidney injury in a patient with terminal heart failure.

Keywords

• uric acid
• gout
• extraarticular tophi
• heart failure