This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Letters to the Editor: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Letters to the Editor are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by BUNDENS, W. D.
Right arrow Articles by WEITZMAN, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by BUNDENS, W. D., JR.
Right arrow Articles by WEITZMAN, G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1965;47:111-122.
© 1965 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

Primary Articular-Cartilage Calcification with Arthritis (Pseudogout Syndrome)

WARNER D. BUNDENS JR. 1, CARL T. BRIGHTON 1, and GERALD WEITZMAN 1

1 From the Orthopaedic Service, United States Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1. A recently described disease consisting of articular-cartilage calcification with polyarthritis is discussed.

2. The literature is reviewed and four new cases are presented.

3. The roentgenographic picture is characteristic, consisting of calcification in the intermediate zone of articular cartilage.

4. The diagnosis is established by identifying crystals of calcium pyrophosphate in aspirated joint fluid by x-ray diffraction.

5. A theory of pathogenesis of the arthritis is presented.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?