Atlas of Synovial Fluid Cytopathology

1. Front Matter

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2. The Nature of Joints and Joint Diseases

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   Pages 11-15

3. The Nature of Synovial Fluid

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   Pages 16-19

4. Techniques for the Examination of Synovial Fluid — General Remarks

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   Pages 20-23

5. Technical Methods

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   Pages 24-26

6. Naked Eye Examination of Synovial Fluid

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   Pages 27-30

7. The Total Cell Count and the ‘Wet Prep’ Examination and Interpretation 1. Cells

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   Pages 31-35

8. The ‘Wet Prep’ Examination and Interpretation 2. Endogenous Crystals Other Than Lipid

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   Pages 36-44

9. The ‘Wet Prep’ Examination and Interpretation 3. Other Endogenous and Exogenous Particles

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10. Cytocentrifuge Preparations 1. Organisms

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    Pages 57-60

11. Cytocentrifuge Preparations 2. Synovial Fluid Cells

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    Pages 61-62

12. Cytocentrifuge Preparations 3. Granular Cells

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    Pages 63-66

13. Cytocentrifuge Preparations 4. Large Mononuclear Cells

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    Pages 67-70

14. Cytocentrifuge Preparations 5. Other Cells

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    Pages 71-74

15. Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 1. General Remarks

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    Pages 75-76

16. Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 2. Rheumatoid Arthritis

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    Pages 77-82

17. Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 3. Seronegative Spondylarthropathies

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    Pages 83-86

18. Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 4. Other Disorders

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    Pages 87-90

19. Non-inflammatory Arthropathies 1. Osteoarthritis

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    Pages 91-95

20. Non-inflammatory Arthropathies 2. Trauma

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    Pages 96-101

Like all specialized areas of medicine, that of joint disease informative. The techniques, practical and interpretive, has become surrounded by a practical mystique and are highly reproducible and simple, allowing them to be applied in any laboratory. jargon specific to itself. The number of clinicians working Although we see this volume as being of value to all in the field is large but the number of pathologists small. interested in joint disease it is specifically aimed at It follows that the majority of pathologists are at somewhat laboratory staff wishing to offer a synovial fluid analytical of an immediate disadvantage when discussing and ana­ service. Like most cytology we believe much of the cell lysing articular problems with their rheumatological and and non-cell identification and quantitation can, and orthopaedic colleagues. should, be undertaken by trained technical staff. The book In the specific area of synovial fluid examination the is therefore aimed primarily at two groups: pathologists difficulties for the pathologist are compounded because who do not specialize in joint disease and technical staff to date there have been no basic texts that detail the who will be generating the data on which interpretation methods, findings and interpretation of the macroscopic will be based. It is therefore both a text book and a bench and microscopic characteristics of the fluid in the common reference manual. arthropathies. In this book we hope to go some way We do not believe our data or methodology represent towards rectifying this omission.

• cytopathology
• pathology

• Department of Osteoarticular Pathology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  A. J. Freemont, J. Denton

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