[Morphological criteria of the state of the microcirculation and the lymphatic drainage in the synovial membrane of the knee joint under normal and pathological conditions].

Using transmission electron microscopy, the ultrastructural organization of the endothelium of blood and lymphatic capillaries and the structures of the interstitium of synovial membrane were studied in the patients with osteoarthrosis of a knee joint of I-II and II-III stages. Material, obtained from the patients with traumatic lesions of the knee joint components, was used as a control. The structural signs indicative of the microcirculation and lymphatic drainage disturbances were detected in the synovial membrane and were most expressed in II-III stages of osteoarthrosis.