Rare, benign, chronic, progressive metaplasia in which cartilage is formed in the synovial membranes of joints, tendon sheaths, or bursae. Some of the metaplastic foci can become detached producing loose bodies. When the loose bodies undergo secondary calcification, the condition is called synovial osteochondromatosis.
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| "Synovial chondromatosis is a condition affecting joints in which metaplastic cartilage nodules arise from the synovium, causing pain, joint dysfunction, and ultimately joint destruction." | ( Alman, BA; Hopyan, S; Nadesan, P; Wunder, J; Yu, C, 2005) |
| "Synovial chondromatosis is characterized by the formation of osteocartilaginous nodules (free bodies) under the surface of the synovial membrane in joints." | ( Amagasa, T; Kino, K; Nakanishi, S; Sakamoto, K; Sskamoto, K; Yamaguchi, A; Yoshitake, H, 2009) |
| "Synovial chondromatosis is an uncommon condition, characterized by multinodular cartilagineous proliferation of the joint synovium." | ( Kuvat, SV; Mersa, B; Ozçelik, IB; Pilancı, O, 2010) |
| "Synovial chondromatosis is a non-neoplastic disease characterized by metaplasia of the connective tissue leading to chondrogenesis in the synovial membrane." | ( Kato, H; Matsumura, Y; Nakanishi, K; Nomura, J; Tagawa, T; Yanase, S, 2012) |
| "Tenosynovial chondromatosis is a benign chondrogenic metaplasia of extra-articular synovial tissue." | ( Flores, RR; Jordanov, MI; Thomson, AB; Winters, NI, 2015) |
| "Extraarticular synovial osteochondromatosis is a very rare benign disease whose aetiology may be primary or secondary to pre-existing pathology or after trauma." | ( García Espinosa, J; Martínez Martínez, A; Moya Sánchez, E, 2021) |