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A 70-year-old male patient died from acute coronary insufficiency. He had knee joint swelling, gonycampsis and gonalgia during his lifetime. Pathomorphologic examination of the deformed joints and synovial membranes revealed membrane hyperaemia with multiple perivascular inflammatory infltrations made by lymphocytes, plasmocytes and macrophagocytes. There was an accumulation of organized fibrin covering some areas of synovium membrane and looking like rice grains in the articular liquid. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Ankylosing spondylitis
  2. Periarteritis nodosa
  3. Atrophic arthritis
  4. Deforming arthrosis
  5. Tuberculous arthritis
Correct answer

Atrophic arthritis

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