Acquired chondronecrosis.

Sokoloff, L · Ann Rheum Dis · 1990

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Abstract

Zonal necrosis of chondrocytes is a characteristic feature of Kashin-Beck disease. Inferences about chondronecrosis in several spontaneous and experimental arthropathies of other species may be relevant to the cause of Kashin-Beck disease and conceivably, too, banal osteoarthritis in man.

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