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What does subchondral mean?

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Adjective
  1. (bone) Lying under articular cartilage and containing marrow.
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Intraosseous ganglia when associated with osteoarthrosis may be difficult to divorce from large subchondral cysts.
Subchondral cysts were noted to involve the bilateral capitates, the left hamate, and the right scaphoid.
Joint destruction occurs with erosion of juxtaarticular bone around the margins of pannus and invasion of subchondral tissue by pannus.
An anterior capsulotomy was then performed, followed by decortication of the subchondral bone neighboring the torn labrum.
Theories include vascular insufficiency or micro-fractures of the subchondral plate, with synovial fluid being forced from the synovial space into the bone.
It is characterized with joint cartilage degeneration, subchondral bone changes, and synovitis.

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