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. 1981 Feb;40(1):34-6.
doi: 10.1136/ard.40.1.34.

Narrowing of knee joint space in patients with pseudogout

M H Ellman, N L Brown, B Levin

Narrowing of knee joint space in patients with pseudogout

M H Ellman et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 1981 Feb.

Abstract

Abnormalities of joint space in knee roentgenograms were compared among 28 symptomatic patients with pseudogout and 2 control groups consisting of spouses of patients and hospital based patients with knee pain. Joint space narrowing was significantly more frequent in the pseudogout patients than in the 2 control groups. Division of patients and controls into 3 age groups revealed a striking degree of joint space narrowing in the youngest patients with pseudogout. Our study suggests that symptomatic patients with pseudogout have joint destruction beginning at a relatively early age. We speculated that this may reflect concurrence of chondrocalcinosis and another disease such as osteoarthritis.

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