Upper Extremity Compartment Syndrome in a Patient with Acute Gout Attack but without Trauma or Other Typical Causes

Table 1

Results of synovial fluid analysis.

	Normal range	Right wrist joint	Right elbow joint
WBC	0–200 mm^3	No cell count	91,560 [H]
Crystals	None	CP	MU
RBC	None	No cell count	21,000
Neutrophils	0–25%	79 [H]	85 [H]
Lymphocytes	0–78%	10	2
Monocytes	0–71%	8	13
Eosinophils	0–2%	3 [H]	None
Appearance	Clear	Bloody	Turbid
Color	Colorless	Red	Yellow

Sample was clotted. CP = calcium pyrophosphate; MU = monosodium urate; RBC = red blood cell count; WBC = white blood cell count; [H] = high level.