joint disease

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Introduction
Inflammatory joint diseases: types of arthritis
- Bursitis
- Infectious arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis and allied disorders
- Collagen diseases
- Miscellaneous arthritides
Noninflammatory joint diseases: injury and degenerative disorders
- Traumatic joint diseases
- Degenerative joint disease
Congenital and hereditary abnormalities
Secondary joint diseases
- Hemorrhagic joint diseases
- Aseptic necrosis
- Endocrine factors
- Neurogenic arthropathy
- Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Tumours of joints

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