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Ochronosis: a case of severe ochronotic arthropathy
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey. knas@dicle.edu.tr
Clinical Rheumatology
|June 28, 2002
Abstract:
Ochronosis involves primarily the large cartilaginous joint surfaces, ribs, intervertebral discs, ear cartilage etc. We report on a 53-year-old woman with typical alkaptonuric ochronosis with dark urine, blue-black pigmentation of the auriculae and hands, focal brown hyperpigmentation of the sclera, spondylarthropathy and severe shoulder joint involvement.