The clinical picture of early congenital syphilis is now so often modified that diagnosis must depend on very careful clinical and laboratory examination. The physician should be well acquainted with such attenuated forms of early congenital syphilis to be able to discover and treat them promptly. Osteochondritis of the first degree, if the sole evidence, may not be proof of congenital syphilis...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has developed the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) document Management of Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Femoral Condyle. Evidence-based information, in conjunction with the clinical expertise of physicians, was used to develop the criteria to improve patient care and obtain the best outcomes while considering the subtleties and distinctions necessar...

Introduction Osteochondrosis or osteochondritis are alterations characterized by failure in sub-chondral ossification and affects the immature skeleton of children and teenagers. It may affects any epiphysis, apophysis or short bone with similar radiological and anatomopathological characteristics. It has no defined etiology, although there are some risk factors as constitutional predisposing, ...

Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is a chronic disease of the articular cartilage characterized by focal lesions subchondral bone and overlaying cartilage. Through growing number reports describing high prevalence OCD in some families, subcategory termed familial (FOCD) was established. With development genetic approaches such as genome-wide association studies sequencing, aggrecan (ACAN) has bee...

Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) of the capitellum is an uncommon disorder seen primarily in the adolescent overhead athlete. Unlike Panner disease, a self-limiting condition of the immature capitellum, OCD is multifactorial and likely results from microtrauma in the setting of cartilage mismatch and vascular susceptibility. The natural history of OCD is poorly understood, and degenerative joint...

Osteochondritis dissecans is a condition affecting a joint in which a variably sized wedge of subchondral bone and its overlying cartilage dies and becomes detached from the articular surface. Although it occurs most often in the knee joint of young male athletes, other reported sites of involvement include the patella, the capitellum, the talar dome, and the femoral head.I In contrast, the occ...