Septic polyarthritis in chronic tophaceous gout.

This paper reports the case of a 48 year old patient with chronic tophaceous gout who was admitted to the hospital with a pneumococcal polyarthritis affecting the same joints previously involved by gout attacks. The authors emphasize that the possibility of a septic arthritis should always be considered in the gouty patient, and not only in the elderly, as stressed in the literature, but also in younger patients.