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Overview

Enthesis (plural: entheses) is the point at which a tendon inserts into bone, where the collagen fibers are mineralized and integrated into bone tissue. These insertion points are commonly called Sharpey's fibers.

Classification

There are two types:

  • Fibrous entheses
  • Fibrocartilaginous entheses

In a fibrous enthesis, the collagenous tendon or ligament directly attaches to the bone, whilst the fibrocartilaginous enthesis displays 4 zones during the transition from tendon/ligament to bone:

  • i) tendinous area displaying longitudinally oriented fibroblasts and a parallel arrangement of collagen fibres
  • ii) a fibrocartilaginous region of variable thickness where the structure of the cells changes to chondrocytes
  • iii) an abrupt transition from cartilaginous to calcified fibrocartilage - the so-called 'tidemark' or 'blue line'
  • iv) bone

Pathology

A disease of the entheses is known as an "enthesopathy" or "enthesitis" and is characteristic of spondyloarthropathy but present in other pathology as well.

External links

  • Image of enthesis at Medscape
  • Enthesopathy and Soft Tissue Shadows at chiroweb.com
  • Resnick D, Niwayama G (1983). "Entheses and enthesopathy. Anatomical, pathological, and radiological correlation". Radiology. 146 (1): 1–9. PMID 6849029.
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  • Origin of phrase at rheuma21st.com at rheuma21st.com

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