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#Elastic cartilage, e.g. epiglottis.
#Elastic cartilage, e.g. epiglottis.


==General==
=General=
Features of cartilage:<ref name=Ref_EH2_178-9>{{Ref EH2|178-9}}</ref>
Features of cartilage:<ref name=Ref_EH2_178-9>{{Ref EH2|178-9}}</ref>
*Avascular.
*Avascular.
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cartilage_polarised.jpg Hyaline cartilage - polarised (WC)].
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cartilage_polarised.jpg Hyaline cartilage - polarised (WC)].


==Tumours==
=Tumours=
{{Main|Chondro-osseous tumours}}
{{Main|Chondro-osseous tumours}}
Tumours of cartilage are dealt with in the article ''[[chondro-osseous tumours]]'' together with bone tumours.
Tumours of cartilage are dealt with in the article ''[[chondro-osseous tumours]]'' together with bone tumours.


==See also==
=Specific diagnoses=
==Synovial chondromatosis==
*[[AKA]] ''synovial osteochondromatosis''.
===General===
*Benign.
**Malignant transformation rare <5%.<ref name=pmid17848703/>
*Classically location: knee.<ref name=pmid17848703>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Murphey | first1 = MD. | last2 = Vidal | first2 = JA. | last3 = Fanburg-Smith | first3 = JC. | last4 = Gajewski | first4 = DA. | title = Imaging of synovial chondromatosis with radiologic-pathologic correlation. | journal = Radiographics | volume = 27 | issue = 5 | pages = 1465-88 | month =  | year =  | doi = 10.1148/rg.275075116 | PMID = 17848703 | URL = http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465.long }}</ref>
 
===Radiology===
*Intraarticular calcifications.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=pmid17848703/>
*Hyaline cartilage +/- lobular surface.
**May have lacunae with binucleate cells.
*+/-Synovial hyperplasia - ribbon like tissue with an epithelium that has eosinophilic cytoplasm.
*Bone.
 
Images:
*[http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465.long Synovial chondromatosis (rsna.org)].
*[http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465.long Synovial chondromatosis - high mag. (rsna.org)].
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=1&Case=369 Synovial chondromatosis (webpathology.com)].
 
*[[Chondrosarcoma]].
 
 
=See also=
*[[Chondro-osseous tumours]].
*[[Chondro-osseous tumours]].
*[[Bone]].
*[[Bone]].
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