Chondrocalcinosis (mnemonic)
Dr MT Niknejad and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.
Mnemonics for chondrocalcinosis include:
- 3 Cs
- WHIP A DOG
- HOGWASH
Mnemonics
3 Cs
- C - crystals CPPD, sodium urate (gout)
- C - cations calcium (any cause of hypercalcemia), copper, iron
- C - cartilage degeneration osteoarthritis, acromegaly, ochronosis
WHIP A DOG
- W - Wilson disease
- H - hyperparathyroidism (15%), haemochromatosis, haemophilia, hypothyroidism
- I - idiopathic (ageing)
- P - pseudogout
- A - acromegaly
- D - diabetes mellitus
- O - ochronosis
- G - gout
HOGWASH
- H - hyperparathyroidism, hypothyroidism, haemophilia
- O - ochronosis
- G - gout
- W - Wilson disease
- A - arthritis (rheumatoid, postinfectious, traumatic, degenerative), amyloidosis, acromegaly
- S - pseudogout
- H - haemochromatosis
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