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Osteoarthritis revisited

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Abstract

Current research challenges the concept that osteoarthritis is an inevitably progressive disease. Evidence suggests that many factors are involved and that the radiological features represent a spectrum of bone and joint response to disease, rather than reflect disease as such.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Rheumatology, Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK

    Iain Watt & Paul Dieppe

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Watt, I., Dieppe, P. Osteoarthritis revisited. Skeletal Radiol. 19, 1–3 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00197920

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