Reliability of serial bone scintigraphy classification according to Conway in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.

Evolution in diagnosis and treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is an idiopathic osteonecrosis of the femoral head with variable complications and resultant deformity of the femoral head and osteoarthritis. Suggested risk factors are acetabular retroversion, obesity, latitude, hyperactivity, and coagulopathy. The most commonly applied classification is based on radiolucency in the lateral pillar of the femoral head, which i...

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...

Legg-calve-perthes disease: a review of cases with onset before six years of age.

BACKGROUND The prognosis for children in whom Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease develops before the age of six years was initially reported to be good, but later studies demonstrated a less favorable prognosis. To assess the natural history of this condition in this age group, we reviewed a large cohort of children who had received minimal treatment for the disease. METHODS The medical records and r...

Classifications in brief: the Herring lateral pillar classification for Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.

Classifications of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) may be divided into three categories: those defining the stage of the disease, those attempting to prognosticate outcome, and those defining outcome. Although Arthur Legg MD [13], Jacques Calvé [2], and Georg Perthes MD [17] share credit for their descriptions of the disease published between 1909 and 1910, according to Wenger and Pandya, Hen...

Osteochondritis dissecans following Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.