Chen Shih-Lung, Chen Jim-Ray, Yang Shih-Wei
Department of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou.
School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Mar;98(11):e14850. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000014850.
A gouty tophus, arising from the deposition of monosodium urate crystals (MSU), rarely occurs in the nasal bridge. There have been only 7 documented cases of a gouty tophus in the nasal bridge from 1978 to 2018 in English-language literature.
A 65-year-old male had a chief complaint of a lump in the nasal bridge that was slowly growing for over 1 year.
MSU crystals were confirmed through ultrasonography (US) and pathological examinations.
A cosmetically less destructive method, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) was used to approach the mass lesion of nasal bridge.
The diagnosis was confirmed as a gouty tophus without performing a nasal subdermal exploration.
This case report is the first use of US with FNAC to approach and diagnosed a gouty tophus in the nasal bridge.
痛风石由尿酸钠晶体(MSU)沉积形成,很少出现在鼻梁处。1978年至2018年,英文文献中仅记录了7例鼻梁处痛风石的病例。
一名65岁男性,主要诉求为鼻梁处有一肿块,缓慢生长超过1年。
通过超声检查(US)和病理检查确诊为MSU晶体。
采用一种对外观破坏较小的方法,即超声引导下细针穿刺抽吸细胞学检查(FNAC)来处理鼻梁处的肿块病变。
未进行鼻皮下探查即确诊为痛风石。
本病例报告首次使用超声联合FNAC来处理和诊断鼻梁处的痛风石。