What diseases can be diagnosed with a synovial biopsy?
The diseases that can be diagnosed with a synovial biopsy are given below
Diseases That Can be Diagnosed With a Synovial Biopsy
- • Chronic infections
- Fungal arthritis
- Mycobacterial arthritis
- Spirochetal arthritis (Lyme disease, syphilis)
- Whipple’s disease
- Chlamydia
- • Other systemic diseases
- Plant thorn and foreign body
- Camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome
- Chronic sarcoidosis
- • Infiltrative/deposition diseases∗
- Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
- Amyloidosis
- Pancreatic fat necrosis
- Ochronosis
- Hemochromatosis
- Crystal-induced arthritis
- • Tumors
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Synovial osteochondromatosis
- Synovial cell sarcoma
- Leukemia/lymphoma
- Metastatic disease to the joint
