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Table 5 Presence of artifacts in both patients with gout and controls

From: Gout of feet and ankles in different disease durations: diagnostic value of single-source DECT and evaluation of urate deposition with a novel semi-quantitative DECT scoring system

Group

 

Nailartifact

Skinartifact

Noise

Vascular calcification

+

–

+

–

+

–

+

–

Gout patients

146

67

79

30

116

6

140

1

145

Controls

50

17

31

7

43

0

50

0

50

Cramer’s V

 

0.105

0.073

0.104

0.042

χ2

 

2.150

1.043

–

–

P-value

 

0.143

0.307

0.341*

1.000*

  1. *P value was calculated by Fisher Exact Test