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FA26.0 category

Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition disease

Definition

Familial calcium pyrophosphate deposition is a chronic inherited arthropathy characterised by chondrocalcinosis (cartilage calcification), often associated with recurrent acute calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis and polyarticular osteoarthritis.

Also indexed as

CPPD - [calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition disease]Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition diseaseFamilial calcium pyrophosphate deposition

Nearby in Certain specified crystal arthropathies