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Tissue Collection and RNA Extraction from the Human Osteoarthritic Knee Joint
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A neglected case of giant synovial chondromatosis in knee joint
Sancar Serbest1, Ugur Tiftikçi1, Fatih Karaaslan2
1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
Abstract:
Synovial chondromatosis is a rare benign condition arising from the synovial membrane of the joints, synovial sheaths or bursae around the joints. Primary synovial chondromatosis typically affects the large joints in the third to fifth decade of life. The purpose of this case report is to document this rare synovial pathology, which required open synovectomy and debridement to eradicate it. In our case, the biggest sized SOC was 20x19x6 cm, although there were many joint mice. Our case had the biggest SOC ever extracted, which to the best of my knowledge has not been reported earlier.
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