The buildup of uric acid in your joints can lead to swollen growths under your skin called tophi. If left untreated, tophi can lead to loss of motion in your joints and other complications.

Tophi are firm, painless yellow lesions that form in and around the joints in people with advanced gout. They have a uric acid (monosodium urate) core, and the skin that covers them can become ...

People with tophaceous gout can get tophi, which are hard uric acid deposits that form beneath the skin. Tophi look like chalky lumps under the skin. They can be found on or near the elbow ...

High uric acid often presents subtle symptoms beyond joint pain. Not every symptom speaks in a loud voice. Sometimes, it ...

Small, painless lumps under the skin may also appear. Considering the fast-paced and stressful lives most people live these days, with no time to focus on one's health, having high uric acid has ...

Tophi feel like hard bumps under the skin and are usually not painful, except during gout attacks when they become inflamed and swollen. As tophi continue to grow, they can erode the surrounding ...

Tophi. The crystals that cause your joint pain will have built up in your skin and other parts of your body. Depending on where they are, you may have lasting damage to your joints. You may also ...

With tophi, excess uric acid crystals accumulate in your joints, kidneys, bones, cartilage, or under your skin in small, stone-like deposits. Depending on the location of tophi, it can result in ...

Factors that were identified as being independently associated with bone erosions were age, duration of gout, the presence of tophi, and ultrasound-detected synovial hypertrophy, they researchers ...

Patients with confirmed tophi and more frequent acute gout attacks had lower HRQOL, and the association between HRQOL, tophi and flares remained significant even after accounting for covariates.

The present study quantifies the impact of the presence of tophi and frequency of acute gout attacks on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), productivity, and healthcare resource utilization.