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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021

Subchondral Trabecular Microstructure and Articular Cartilage Damage Variations Between Osteoarthritis and Osteoporotic Osteoarthritis: A Cross-sectional Cohort Study.

Feng Zhou, Linyang Chu, Xuqiang Liu, Zihao He, Xuequan Han, Mengning Yan, Xinhua Qu, Xiaofeng Li, Zhifeng Yu

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  2. More severe microdamage and micromechanical alterations: altered subchondral bone remodeling in varus knee osteoarthritis with osteoporosis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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Feng ZhouShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Linyang ChuShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xuqiang LiuDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, The Artificial Joint Engineering and Technology Research Center of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China.
Zihao HeShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xuequan HanShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Mengning YanShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xinhua QuDepartment of Bone and Joint Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xiaofeng LiDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, The Artificial Joint Engineering and Technology Research Center of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China.
Zhifeng YuShanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CNShanghai Ninth People's Hospital · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University · CNNanchang University · CNRenji Hospital · CN

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Abstract

Osteoporotic osteoarthritis (OP-OA) is a specific type of OA. In this study, we aimed to assess the subchondral plate and rod microstructural differences between OA and OP-OA patients by using an individual trabeculae segmentation (ITS) system and to analyze the relationships between subchondral microstructures and cartilage damage in OA and OP-OA patients. Overall, 31 femoral heads were included in this study, which included 11 samples with OA and 13 samples with OP-OA; the normal control (NC) group contained 7 healthy femoral heads. ITS was performed to segment the subchondral trabecular bone into plate and rod trabeculae based on microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) images. We compared the plate and rod trabeculae of the subchondral trabecular bone between OA and OP-OA patients. The Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) score was employed to evaluate cartilage damage based on histological observations. Pearson's correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis were applied to analyze the relationships between subchondral microstructures and articular cartilage damage. Results showed that several microstructural parameters, including bone volume fraction (BV/TV), plate bone volume fraction (pBV/TV), rod bone volume fraction (rBV/TV), plate trabecular number (pTb.N), rod trabecular number (rTb.N), junction density between rod and plate (R-P Junc.D), and junction density between plate and plate (P-P Junc.D), were significantly decreased in patients with OP-OA compared with those in patients with OA (

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cartilage damageindividual trabeculae segmentationosteoarthritisosteoporotic osteoarthritissubchondral trabecular boned

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