| This is chronic urate nephropathy with pale yellowish tan tophaceous deposits in the medulla. There is also an acute urate nephropathy that can occur with a "lysis" syndrome reulting from massive cellular necrosis of leukemia or lymphoma cells with chemotherapy. The breakdown of the cell nuclei yields large amounts of purines metabolized to urates which, when excreted, plug renal tubules. |
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