Preventing acute gout when starting allopurinol therapy. Colchicine or NSAIDs?

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Published in Med J Aust on August 02, 1993

Authors

T V Kot1, R O Day, P M Brooks

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1: St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW.

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