Background: Perthes disease is a form of juvenile idiopathic osteonecrosis characterized by temporary bone mortality due to inadequate blood supply the femoral head. Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed evaluate treatment outcomes and sequelae Disease identify most effective modalities for managing its sequelae. Methods: The research enrolled 59 patients who had completed at our institu...

PERTHES' disease is a condition affecting children's hips in which the upper femoral epiphysis apparently becomes avascular and then revascularises over the next few years. We have undertaken a long term follow-up of patients with Perthes' disease to assess the outcome of the disease process over a long period of time with regard to the clinical condition of the hip. Most of the recent studies ...

Thirty-two patients (out of 52 undergoing surgery) with Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCP) were examined retrospectively to assess the efficacy of surgical treatment on epiphyseal morphology at the primary healing. The analysis of the clinical results of the 33 hips considered indicated that it is necessary to operate above all on 3rd grade hips. For these the most frequent operation indicated is...

The results of treating 148 hips in 135 children (aged 7 to 16 at the onset of management) for Perthes' disease are analysed. Cases are classified according to the amount of epiphysial containment and the results assessed according to the degree of preserved sphericity. It is concluded that to obtain satisfactory results in this age group treatment should be prolonged until the restitution of t...

OBJECTIVE To establish a simple, reproducible and safe experimental model, for the development of ischemic vascular necrosis of the hip in the lamb. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used 15 lambs (10 males and 5 females) aged four weeks, divided into a control group (7 animals) and an experimental group (8 animals) producing ischemia in the proximal femur. Standard radiography and MRI were performed. ...