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[Para-articular osteoporosis in chronic polyarthritis]
1II. Medizinischen Abteilung mit Rheumatologie und Osteologie, Kaiser Franz Josef Spitals der Stadt Wien.
Acta Medica Austriaca
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
In patients with rheumatoid arthritis according to the criteria of the American Rheumatism Association (ARA) (4) the head of the femur was resected during reconstructive hip joint operation. The area of increased radiological translucence near to the joint space was histologically investigated. The rarefication of the trabecula was found distal of the articular cartilage. In this radiologically translucent area numerous osteoclasts and inflammatory cells could be found.