Calcifying tendinitis, an active cell-mediated calcification
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Virchows Archiv
- Vol. 366 (1) , 51-58
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00438677
Abstract
Biopsy specimen from 18 patients suffering from calcifying tendinitis were stained with different histologic and histochemical techniques. The results of these examinations seem to indicate that we are not dealing with a dystrophic calcification, but with a cell-mediated calcification of a living tissue. The process resembles an incomplete endochondral ossification. Histologische und histochemische Untersuchungen der Supraspinatussehne von 18 Patienten mit calcifizierender Tendinitis. Der Verkalkungsprozeß wird eingeleitet durch eine Transformation der Tendinocyten in Chondrocyten begleitet von einer Anreicherung alkalischer Phosphatase. In einer zweiten Phase kommt es, unter Mitwirkung der Chondrocyten, zur granulären Verkalkung und gelegentlich auch zur Ossifikation vergleichbar der enchondralen Ossifikation. Für die Annahme einer dystrophischen Sehnenverkalkung ergeben sich keine Hinweise.Keywords
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