Histomorphometric case-control study of subarticular osteophytes in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip.
Rasmus Klose-JensenAndreas Wiggers NielsenLouise Brøndt HartlevJesper Skovhus ThomsenLene Warner Thorup BoelMogens LaursenKresten Krarup KellerEllen-Margrethe HaugePublished in: BMC musculoskeletal disorders (2020)
As expected, both marginal- and subarticular osteophytes at the femoral head, were more frequent and larger in patients with OA than in the control group. However, in the control group, subarticular osteophytes were more prevalent than expected from the minor osteophytic changes at the femoral head margin, which may suggest that subarticular osteophytes are an early degenerative phenomenon that ultimately might develop into clinical osteoarthritis.
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