Uptake study of ClONO2 and BrONO2 by water droplets G. Deiber, Ch. George, S. Le Calvé, F. Schweitzer, and Ph. Mirabel Centre de Géochimie de la Surface/UMR 7517, CNRS and Université Louis Pasteur, 1 rue Blessig, F-67084 Strasbourg, France Laboratoire d’Application de la Chimie à l’Environnement (LACE), 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France Received: 19 December 2003 – ...

Retroversion of the adult acetabulum following a previous Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is found in 30-40% of the patients. It is known that in LCPD there may also be morphologic changes in the nonaffected controlateral acetabulum. We investigated the prevalence of retroversion of the contralateral acetabulum in a group of adult patients with a history of LCPD. We found this morphology in 1...

Osteochondral lesions most commonly occur about the knee but may affect any articular surface of the pediatric appendicular skeleton. Osteochondral lesions include osteochondritis dissecans, osteochondral fractures, and osteochondral abnormalities associated with secondary processes such as Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. These abnormalities should not be confused with normal subchondral irregulari...