Number of urate deposits according to physical examination (PE) and dual energy CT scans (DECT) and volumes of urate deposits by DECT
| No | Age/sex | Area of urate deposition | ||||
| Hands and wrists | Elbows | Feet and ankles | Knees | Total | ||
| Number by PE → Number by DECT (volume by DECT, cm3) | ||||||
| 1 | 69/M | 20 → 30 (101.65) | 2 → 6 (37.39) | 0 → 18 (76.91) | 0 → 9 (33.18) | 22 → 63 (249.13) |
| 2 | 60/F | 3 →2 (0.13) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 0 → 8 (1.35) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 3 → 10 (1.48) |
| 3 | 73/M | 12 → 28 (34.44) | 2 → 2 (17.69) | 7 → 14 (66.52) | 2 → 12 (44.65) | 23 → 56 (163.30) |
| 4 | 58/M | 7 → 11 (0.59) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 0 → 13 (90.65) | 1 → 2 (3.26) | 8 → 26 (94.50) |
| 5 | 37/M | 0 → 2 (2.45) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 2 → 7 (4.46) | 0 → 5 (4.06) | 2 → 14 (10.97) |
| 6 | 82/M | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 1 → 4 (0.77) | 0 → 5 (0.84) | 0 → 9 (5.16) | 1 → 18 (6.77) |
| 7 | 50/M | 2 → 13 (0.53) | 0 → 0 (0) | 4 → 8 (90.12) | 0 → 2 (0.34) | 6 → 23 (90.99) |
| 8 | 50/F | 3 → 6 (0.48) | 2 → 1 (0.08) | 2 → 13 (1.71) | 1 → 1 (0.02) | 8 → 21 (2.29) |
| 9 | 79/M | 3 → 2 (2.67) | 0 → 1 (0.48) | 0 → 10 (13.33) | 0 → 8 (10.39) | 3 → 21 (26.87) |
| 10 | 70/F | 2 → 3 (2.00) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 0 → 14 (4.40) | 0 → 1 (0.06) | 2 →18 (6.46) |
| 11 | 76/F | 2 → 16 (6.76) | 0 → 7 (2.98) | 1 → 13 (14.61) | 0 → 8 (2.82) | 3 → 44 (27.17) |
| 12 | 70/M | 1 → 5 (0.72) | 2 → 5 (8.18) | 3 → 16 (8.29) | 2 → 8 (3.22) | 8 → 34 (20.41) |
| 13 | 63/M | 0 →0 (0.00) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 1 → 4 (2.44) | 0 → 2 (1.63) | 1 → 6 (4.07) |
| 14 | 70/M | 2 → 3 (0.65) | 0 → 1 (0.31) | 2 → 5 (22.45) | 0 → 1 (0.18) | 4 → 10 (23.59) |
| 15 | 53/M | 0 → 2 (7.55) | 1 →1 (6.58) | 3 → 5 (37.21) | 4 → 10 (15.48) | 8 → 18 (66.82) |
| 16 | 61/M | 1 → 2 (*) | 0 → 1 (0.08) | 1 → 2 (2.35) | 1 → 1 (*) | 3 → 6 (2.43) |
| 17 | 61/M | 0 → 3 (*) | 1 → 2 (*) | 1 → 10 (*) | 1 → 6 (1.46) | 3 → 21 (1.46) |
| 18 | 67/F | 1 → 1 (*) | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 0 → 5 (0.49) | 0 → 2 (0.14) | 1 → 8 (0.63) |
| 19 | 62/M | 0 → 0 (0.00) | 1 → 2 (*) | 0 → 7 (0.14) | 0 → 9 (3.68) | 1 → 18 (3.82) |
| 20 | 43/M | 0 →0 (0.00) | 0 → 1 (0.31) | 1 → 3 (*) | 0 → 1 (0.57) | 1 → 5 (0.88) |
| Total | 59 → 129 (160.62) | 12 → 34 (74.85) | 28 → 180 (438.27) | 12 → 97 (130.3) | 111 → 440 (804.04) | |
| Mean | 3 → 6 (9.45) | 1 → 2 (4.16) | 1 → 9 (24.35) | 1 → 5 (6.86) | 6 → 22 (40.20) | |
| p Values† | 0.002 | 0.006 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |
*No eligible volume images available owing to motion artefacts or storage with a wrong kernel slice size. †The number of urate deposits found by physical examination and DECT were compared with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.