Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Quantitative aspects of patello-femoral cartilage fibrillation in Liverpool necropsies.

1974; BMJ; Volume: 33; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/ard.33.1.39

ISSN

1468-2060

Autores

G. Meachim, I H Emery,

Tópico(s)

Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management

Resumo

The significance of ageing as a possible factor contributing to the pathogenesis of osteoarthrosis is debatable (Byers, Contepomi, and Farkas, 1970); moreover, the matter may require separate consideration for the hip, knee, and other joints.Necropsy studies of the incidence, natural history, and severity of age-related cartilage lesions in various joints are relevant to this question.Age changes in the hip, knee, and other joints have been studied by Heine (1926), in the knee joint by 0wre (1936) and

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