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A 3D System for Culturing Human Articular Chondrocytes in Synovial Fluid
Published on: January 31, 2012
Cholesterol crystals in shoulder synovial fluid
1Department of Rheumatology, University of Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK.
British Journal of Rheumatology
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
Samples of 1945 synovial fluids have been examined from patients with a wide variety of joint disorders. Typical cholesterol crystals were seen in only 14 of these samples, all from the shoulders of six patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis and persistent shoulder effusions.

