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Chapter 13 - Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)»Osteoarthritis (M15-M19)»Osteoarthritis of knee, unspecified (M17.9)

M17.9

Osteoarthritis of knee, unspecified

Related indications (MeSH) (1)

Osteoarthritis, Knee374 drugs (132 approved, 242 experimental)

Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)