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*Prevalence: male > female.
*Prevalence: male > female.


===Radiology===
===Gross/radiology===
*Intraarticular calcifications.
*Intraarticular calcifications.
*+/-Loose bodies in the joint (AKA ''joint mice'').
*+/-Loose bodies in the joint ([[AKA]] ''joint mice'').


Image:
Image:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChondromatoseCoude.jpg Synovial chondromatosis (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChondromatoseCoude.jpg Synovial chondromatosis (WC)].
*[http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465/F26.expansion.html SC - gross (rsna.org)].


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=pmid17848703/>
Features:<ref name=pmid17848703/>
*Hyaline cartilage +/- lobular surface.
*[[Hyaline cartilage]] +/- lobular surface.
**May have lacunae with binucleate cells.  
**May have lacunae with binucleate cells.  
*+/-Synovial hyperplasia - ribbon like tissue with an epithelium that has eosinophilic cytoplasm.
*+/-Synovial hyperplasia - ribbon like tissue with an epithelium that has eosinophilic cytoplasm.
*Bone.
*[[Bone]].


DDx:
DDx:
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*[http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465/F45.expansion.html Synovial chondromatosis - low mag. (rsna.org)].
*[http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/27/5/1465/F45.expansion.html Synovial chondromatosis - low mag. (rsna.org)].
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=1&Case=369 Synovial chondromatosis (webpathology.com)].
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=1&Case=369 Synovial chondromatosis (webpathology.com)].
===Sign out===
<pre>
LOOSE BODIES, RIGHT ELBOW, REMOVAL:
- SYNOVIAL OSTEOCHONDROMATOSIS.
</pre>


=See also=
=See also=
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