Acquired chondronecrosis.
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.
Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8691.
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D000818:Animals; D002357:Cartilage Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary