Calcium pyrophosphate deposit disease

Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease is a kind of crystalline arthropathy that involves joints and other motor systems and is associated with calcium pyrophosphate sedimentation (CPPS) crystal deposition. Therefore, it is also called pyrophosphate arthropathy.

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