High uric acid may cause wrist pain, and this condition should be considered as possible gouty arthritis. Uric acid salts can be deposited in joint capsule, bursa, cartilage, bone and other tissues, and the deposition will cause local tissue lesion and inflammatory reaction to a certain extent, thus stimulating local symptoms of redness, swelling, heat and pain, although it often involves the first metatarsophalangeal joint, but it can also involve the wrist joint.
It needs to be further differentiated from fractures, dislocations, osteoarthritis, tendonitis, tenosynovitis, rheumatoid/rheumatoid arthritis, hand tumors, purulent wrist infections, and tuberculosis.