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Legg-Calve’-Perthes Disease

Duhring s disease Legg-Calve-Perthes disease 207... [Pg.207]

Wingstrand H (1999) Significance of synovitis in Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. J Pediatr Orthop B 8 156-160... [Pg.58]

Perthes disease, also known as Legg-Calv -Perthes syndrome after the investigators who independently identified this condition in 1910, is related to an idiopathic avascular necrosis of the proximal femoral epiphysis. It mainly affects children 3-12 years old with a peak incidence at approximately 4-8 years and a definite prevalence (4 1) in males and lower social classes (Guille et al. 1998). The onset of Perthes disease is related to the development of the femoral head vasculature, which includes the ascending cervical arteries (branches from the medial and lateral circumflex arteries), the lateral epiphyseal vessels and... [Pg.931]

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