Classifications in Brief: The Herring Lateral Pillar Classification for Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease

Classifications in brief: the Herring lateral pillar classification for Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.

Classifications of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) may be divided into three categories: those defining the stage of the disease, those attempting to prognosticate outcome, and those defining outcome. Although Arthur Legg MD [13], Jacques Calvé [2], and Georg Perthes MD [17] share credit for their descriptions of the disease published between 1909 and 1910, according to Wenger and Pandya, Hen...

Prognostic Value of Modified Lateral Pillar Classification in Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease

BACKGROUND To evaluate the usefulness of the modified lateral pillar classification as a prognostic factor in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD). METHODS Thirty nine patients diagnosed with lateral pillar C in LCPD from May, 1977, to October, 2001 were reviewed, and their skeletal maturity was followed. The mean follow up duration was 12 years and 7 months (4 years, 6 months to 24 years, 9 mon...

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease: classifications and prognostic factors.

INTRODUCTION Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease (LCPD) represents idiopathic avascular necrosis of femoral head in pediatric population. Indications for treatment depend mostly on prognosis about femoral head sphericity and hip congruence at the end of growth. The aim of this review is to highline prognostic factors of LCPD. METHODS Bibliographic search in PubMed allowed selection of 33 articles conc...

Osteochondritis dissecans following Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.

Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. Part I: Classification of radiographs with use of the modified lateral pillar and Stulberg classifications.

BACKGROUND Accurate and reliable radiographic classifications of the relative severity and outcome of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease are essential in the study of that disease. As part of a prospective multicenter study, we sought to define more clearly the lateral pillar classification of severity and the Stulberg classification of outcome; we sought especially to define the borderlines between cl...