title: [The importance of arthroscopy and guided biopsy of the knee joint in gout].
abstract: The authors studied the arthroscopic picture of the knee joint in 50 male patients, 40 of whom had a genuine gout and 10 a doubtful one. A high diagnostic significance of arthroscopy was emphasized, it rose with the use of a morphological analysis of samples of synovial membrane and villi obtained by means of target biopsy, microscopy and chemical identification of urate.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Piliaev
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Petrov
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Pikhlak
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Shekhter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001182:Arthroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D006073:Gout / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013583:Synovial Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid
vernacular_title: Znachenie artroskopii i pritsel'noĭ biopsii kolennogo sustava pri podagre.