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Editorial
. 2025 Jan;33(1):1-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2024.09.005. Epub 2024 Sep 23.

When 'synovitis' is not synovitis

Sung Yeon Kim  1 , Carla R Scanzello  2
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Editorial

When 'synovitis' is not synovitis

Sung Yeon Kim et al. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest

Sung Yeon Kim declares no conflicts of interest.

Carla R. Scanzello reports employment with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, editorial board memberships for the journals Arthritis and Rheumatology and Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. She is also a named inventor on US patent application 2024/0239913 A1.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Schematic summarizing the histopathological features of synovial inflammation versus synovial tissue damage described by Philpott et al. The green checkmark and red cross on the middle and right panels, respectively, indicate whether the histopathological feature can be detected by ultrasound.
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