A child with Perthes disease presents at or after an advanced stage of fragmentation is considered a late presentation. The maximum femoral head deformation happens the fragmentation. Preventive strategies are needed if before corrective deliberated as presenter. natural history presented poorer than early Clinical features, investigation, various prognostic factors, management options and deci...

The deformity index is a new radiological measurement of the degree of deformity of the femoral head in unilateral Perthes' disease. Its values represent a continuous outcome measure of deformity incorporating changes in femoral epiphyseal height and width compared with the unaffected side. The sphericity of the femoral head in 30 radiographs (ten normal and 20 from patients with Perthes' disea...

INTRODUCTION The most common diseases in the group of painful hip are transient synovitis, rheumatoid arthritis, infective (septic) arthritis, Perthes disease and slipping of the upper femoral epiphysis. METHODOLOGY The algorhythm covers the first and control examinations in certain time intervals (after: 3-7, 7-15, 21-30 days; as well as 2-4 months). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The most frequen...