Only a limited number of patients that suffered from Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease (LCPD) develop pain in early adulthood. Classical hinged abduction is well known and is thought to be responsible for secondary lateral insufficiency of the acetabulum, which may become painful. Another possible explanation, which was put forward more recently, is anterior femoroacetabular impingement. We collected...

The aim of treatment of LCPD disease is to prevent cox arthrosis [1]. Several treatment options have been described in order to prevent or limit femoral head deformation by containing the head within the acetabulum. Varisation osteotomy of the femur, salter osteotomy sometimes resulted in a prolonged limb or inadequate containment [2]. Ilizarov distraction technique is [3,4] now well documented...

We have examined the effect of arthrodiastasis on the preservation of the femoral head in older children with Perthes' disease. We carried out a prospective trial in boys over the age of eight years and girls over seven years at the time of the onset of symptoms. The patients had minimal epiphyseal collapse and were compared with a conventionally treated, consecutive, historical control group. ...

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  Background: Legg-Calve´-Perthes disease is a juvenile idiopathic osteonecrosis in which the blood supply of femoral head is not sufficient and the bone dies provisionally. The aim of this study is to evaluate outcome of Femoral osteotomy in children with LCPD in our University Hospital.   Methods: In a descriptive analytic study, between 2008 and 2013, patients with the diagnosis of Legg-Calv...

The reliability of the Catterall grouping of Perthes' disease was examined by determining the agreement between pairs of observers using weighted kappa statistics. Anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of 100 hip joints were grouped independently by four experienced observers. There was a low, and in our opinion, unacceptable degree of inter-observer agreement even when Groups 2 and 3 were co...