Current Concepts in Synovial Fluid Analysis

ALAN W. WOLF, DANIEL K. BENSON, Hiromu Shoji, Richard S. Riggins, Robert F. Shapiro, James J. Castles, J Wild

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 1978 · 11 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The systematic examination of synovial fluid confirms the noninflammatory nature of degenerative joint disease, is diagnostic of gout, pseudogout, and septic arthritis, and will usually allow the identification of rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Reiter's syndrome.