Table 2 |
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Different theories about etiopathogenesis of calcific tendinopathy (CT). |
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Type |
Cause |
Reference(s) by first author |
Year(s) |
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Degenerative calcification |
Vascular ischemia |
Sandstrom [12] |
1938 |
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Repetitive trauma |
1939, 1941 |
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Necrosis of tenocytes and intracellular calcium accumulation |
Mohr [17] |
1990 |
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Reactive calcification |
Active cell mediated process |
Uhthoff [27] |
1997 |
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Endochondral ossification |
Endochondral ossification of fibrocartilage at the enthesis of the tendon |
Benjamin [34] |
2000 |
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Chondral metaplasia |
Erroneous differentiation of tendon-derived stem cells (TDSCs) |
Rui [46] |
2011 |
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Oliva et al. BMC Medicine 2012 10:95 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-95 |
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