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The nodules on this patient’s finger, ear, toe, and external maleolus are tophi. Diagnostic proof emerged when the tophus on herfinger discharged chalky-white material containing needle-shaped sodium urate crystals that were negatively birefringent under polarized lightmicroscopy.
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