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Classification of patients with knee osteoarthritis in clinical phenotypes: Data from the osteoarthritis initiative.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Dell'Isola A, Steultjens M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The existence of phenotypes has been hypothesized to explain the large heterogeneity characterizing the knee osteoarthritis. In a previous systematic review of the literature, six main phenotypes were identified: Minimal Joint Disease (MJD), Malaligned Biomechanical (MB), Chronic Pain (CP), Inflammatory (I), Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and Bone and Cartilage Metabolism (BCM). The purpose of this study was...
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