Does Valgus Femoral Osteotomy Improve Femoral Head Roundness in Severe Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease?

Clinical Outcome of Femoral Osteotomy in Patients with Legg-Calve´-Perthes Disease

  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...

Delayed ossification of the proximal capital femoral epiphysis in Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.

We studied radiographs of 125 children (105 boys, 20 girls) with unilateral Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease to examine the epiphyseal development of the femoral head in the contralateral (unaffected) hip. The epiphyseal height (EH) and width (EW) of the unaffected hip were measured on the initial anteroposterior pelvic radiograph. In 109 of the patients (87.2%) the EH was below the mean for normal ...

What Is the Usefulness of the Fragmentation Pattern of the Femoral Head in Managing Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease?

BACKGROUND Within the lateral pillar classification of the Legg-Calvé-Perthes (LCP) disease, hips seem quite variable in the pattern of fragmentation as seen in radiographs. The purpose of this study was to determine: if it is possible to reliably subdivide the lateral pillar groups into femoral head fragmentation patterns, and if such a subdivision of the lateral pillar groupings is clinically...

Osteochondritis dissecans following Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.

Editorial LEGG - CALVÉ - PERTHES DISEASE : 100 YEARS

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) started to be studied 100 years ago (1910), thanks to the advent of the possibility of conducting clinical studies by means of radiographic images (1895). However, many questions remain open, both in relation to the etiology of this orthopedic condition and in relation to which therapeutic measures are valid. Thus, great controversy has been generated. In 1910,...