Disease of the joint articulating the bones of the lower leg and foot, associated with its dystrophic changes and bone and cartilage degeneration, is defined as osteoarthritis or osteoarthritis of the ankle joint.
Osteoarthritis, or polyosteoarthritis of the joints, is a lesion of multiple mobile joints - both intervertebral and peripheral, small and large.
An increasing dystrophic process accompanied by changes in the bones of the knee, cartilage damage and bone-tendon degeneration is deforming knee osteoarthritis.
With progressive dystrophic and degenerative processes in the bone and joint apparatus against the background of cartilage lesions of the hip joint, the doctor diagnoses coxarthrosis.
Deforming osteoarthritis of the shoulder joint is often diagnosed in patients with a metabolic-dystrophic disorder accompanied by cartilage destruction, bone overgrowth and shoulder curvature.
Among the many varieties of joint pathologies that eventually lead to complete loss of cartilage tissue in the joint, deforming osteoarthritis of the interphalangeal joints of the hands is considered one of the most common.
Often during radiography of the pelvic bones, marginal osteophytes of the hip joint are detected. These are specific pathologic growths on the articular surface where the bone is covered with cartilage.
Spondylophytes or osteophytes of the cervical spine are bony outgrowths (from Greek osteon - bone and phyton - outgrowth) that can form on any of the seven cervical vertebrae by endochondral ossification, that is, ossification of cartilage.