We describe a case of a 14-year-old boy with a history of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease diagnosed at the age of 6 years and development of synovial osteochondromatosis of the same hip joint 7 years later. Synovial osteochondromatosis is very rare in children, and to the best of our knowledge, only a single case of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease and secondary synovial osteochondromatosis was described ...

The article is based on the importance of applying means and methods specific to physical therapy in improvement Perthes disease. condition known as Perthes, Legg-Perthes, or Legg-Calve-Perthes disease an avascular osteonecrosis epiphysis femoral head. It assumed that through a kinetotherapeutic program appropriate patient's particularities, mobility coxofemoral joint will remain within normal ...

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-calve’...

The clinical importance of dysplasia epiphysealis capitis femoris (Meyer dysplasia) is that it is easily mistaken for Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, leading to unnecessary diagnostic procedures and treatments. After a review of 578 children (619 hips) with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, 17 children (27 hips) in whom both the clinical and radiologic pattern was obviously different could be found and a...

In this study, clinical and radiological results were evaluated in patients with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease treated with Salter pelvic osteotomy. Between 2004 and 2008, 16 patients underwent a Salter osteotomy as treatment for Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (15 male, 1 female; 10 right hip, 6 left hip). The mean age at the time of surgery was 8.1 +/- 1.4 (range: 6 to 10) years. Surgical indications...

It is now sixty years since Legg (1910), Calve (1910) and Perthes (1910) described the condition of coxa plana, or Perthes’ disease as it is more often called today, thus allowing its differentiation from the much more serious tuberculosis of the hip with which it had formerly been confused. It is ironical to find all these years later that a diagnosis of tuberculosis nowadays entails no more t...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the efficacy of arthrodiastasis for Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. METHODS Arthrodiastasis was conducted using external fixator devices (Orthofix) in 7 patients at least 8 years of age with a diagnosis of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. The average follow-up was 80 months (range, 32 to 149 months), and their average age was 9.1 years (range, 8 to 12 years). The results of trea...