joint disease

Introduction
Inflammatory joint diseases: types of arthritis
- Bursitis
- Infectious arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis and allied disorders
- Collagen diseases
- Miscellaneous arthritides
Noninflammatory joint diseases: injury and degenerative disorders
- Traumatic joint diseases
- Degenerative joint disease
Congenital and hereditary abnormalities
Secondary joint diseases
- Hemorrhagic joint diseases
- Aseptic necrosis
- Endocrine factors
- Neurogenic arthropathy
- Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Tumours of joints

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joint disease

pathology

Also known as: arthropathy

Written by

Leon Sokoloff

Emeritus Professor of Pathology, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Author of The Biology of Degenerative Joint Disease.

Leon Sokoloff

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History

joint disease, any of the diseases or injuries that affect human joints. Arthritis is no doubt the best-known joint disease, but there are also many others. Diseases of the joints may be variously short-lived or exceedingly chronic, agonizingly painful or merely nagging and uncomfortable; they may be confined to one joint or may affect many parts of the skeleton. For the purposes of this article, two principal categories are distinguished: joint diseases in which inflammation...

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