CPPD complicating other forms of inflammatory arthritis.

CPPD complicating other forms of inflammatory arthritis.

Rothschild Bruce

Clinical rheumatology

2007

2007-07

Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease is confirmed as equally common in rheumatoid arthritis by synovial fluid and macroscopic skeletal examination. Furthermore, differential frequencies in rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathy provide additional insights to the "lumper-splitter" question.

*Calcium Pyrophosphate/metabolism; Arthritis; Bone and Bones/metabolism/pathology; Chondrocalcinosis/*complications/metabolism/pathology; Female; Humans; Male; Rheumatoid/*complications/metabolism/pathology; Synovial Fluid/metabolism

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