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Abstract
Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)
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- Osteoarthritis of Knee
- Osteoarthritis of the Knee
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
- Knee Osteoarthritides
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35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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1999
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- Knee Joint (1965-1998)
- Osteoarthritis (1965-1998)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Knee Osteoarthritis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020370. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020370
- Knee Osteoarthritis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_osteoarthritis
- Knee Osteoarthritis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1777118