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While the spine is affected in every patient suffering from ochronotic arthropathy and it dominates the arthrologic findings, involvement of some peripheral joints is frequent, but not inevitable (Lindušková et al. 1992; Hench 1948). It is characteristic that ochronotic arthropathy affects only large joints. From the point of occurrence frequency, the joints are affected as follows: knees (64 %), shoulders (42.3 %) and hips (34.6 %). It is typical that elbows as well as hand and feet joints are not affected by pathological process.
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Urbánek, T., Kopecký, Š., Rovenský, J. (2015). Clinical Manifestation of Ochronotic Arthropathy in Peripheral Joints. In: Rovenský, J., Urbánek, T., Oľga, B., Gallagher, J. (eds) Alkaptonuria and Ochronosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15108-3_13
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