Abstracts tagged "Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and synovial fluid"

Abstract Number: 2086 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Calcium Pyrophosphate Crystal Size, Shape and Appearance Variability
Monica Zell¹, Ann Rosenthal², Thanda Aung³, Marian Kaldas³ and John Fitzgerald⁴, ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Rheumatology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: To better understand the variation in calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystal, size, shape and appearance under compensated polarized microscope, synovial fluid crystals were examined by…