These are gout crystals. I suppose the best way to differentiate this case from pseudogout is that the crystals are sharp & needle-shaped and not rhomboid-shaped.
sympathetikeyYep. They tried to throw you off with the picture, but the wording in the stem says its a "photomicrograph" -- not exposed to plane polarized light, where you would see the negative birefringence. +62019-06-09T07:14:14Z
linwanrun1357Why is NBME so mean to us. Do those mean a lot in clinic？+2019-09-24T22:29:32Z
to snoo-finity ... and beyond!
submitted by neonem(263), 2019-06-01T21:26:08Z
These are gout crystals. I suppose the best way to differentiate this case from pseudogout is that the crystals are sharp & needle-shaped and not rhomboid-shaped.