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Although the pathologic processes that underlie the development of erosions are incompletely understood, a considerable body of evidence has suggested that a pannus of cells that originate in chronically inflamed, proliferative synovial tissue becomes locally invasive, and enzymatically degrades the matrix of the articular cartilage and periarticular bone [ 4].
Inflamed joints showed typical histopathological abnormalities described previously (synovial proliferation, leukocyte infiltration, cartilage and bone erosions) [ 29 30 ] , which correlated well with the severity of the clinical symptoms.
Radiographic erosions are characteristic of a number of chronic inflammatory arthropathies, and are associated with articular destruction leading to functional loss and disability [ 1, 2].
Although a proportion of the radiographs were felt to have 'possible' or 'questionable' erosions, only patients with definite erosions on either set of radiographs were included in the definition of erosions.
The synovial tissue samples of patients with erosive disease had significantly higher levels of active MMP-2 than did those of patients without erosions (Fig.