THE association of gout and demonstrable calcification of cartilage has received scanty mention in the medical literature. The present study demonstrates that in a high percentage of patients with ...

As consultants to institutions for elderly patients in the city of Pittsburgh, we have become impressed by the number of asymptomatic older persons who demonstrated calcification of cartilage on the ...

Cartilage calcification is associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). A study by Mitsuyama et al., however, suggests that calcification is primarily a consequence of aging rather than OA. A total of ...

Doctors suspected a man’s slip and fall may have broken his achy knee, but X-rays found a bone growing — around his penis. The “exceedingly rare” finding was written up by a medical team that included ...