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Patients from a Romani (Gypsy) community in the neighbourhood of Vellore in India, clinically diagnosed as spondyloarthropathy over a period of 8 years, were subjected to urine HPLC for homogentisic acid. Out of 40 patients, 12 (8 males/4 females) were positive for alkaptonuria. All the 12 Romanis presented with diverse symptoms of low backache, knee pain, ankle pain, etc. They came from the nearby Gypsy settlements from a radius of about 70 km, and all of them belonged to a homogeneous ethnic group of a population of 20,000. The results of the clinical and radiological investigations are summarised in Tables 14.1 and 14.2.
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Jebaraj, I., Jebaraj, P., Kumar, S. (2015). Clinical and Ultrasound Evaluation of Enthesopathy in Alkaptonuria in Romani (Gypsy) Community. 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_14
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