Slipped capital femoral epiphysis is a very frequently seen condition in orthopedics centers worldwide. Even in successfully treated cases, complications related either with the pathology per se or with the chosen synthesis method are not rare. This report presents a case of bilateral slipped capital femoral epiphysis treated with pinning, in which one of the limbs developed a very rare conditi...

We report an interesting case of a 17-year-old normal-statured female who was diagnosed with congenital panhypopituitarism due to pituitary hypoplasia at the presentation of bilateral slipped capital femoral epiphysis. We emphasized the importance of endocrinologic evaluation in patients with atypical slipped capital femoral epiphysis to prevent potential complication of adrenal crisis during s...

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) is a fracture that results from displacement of the proximal femoral epiphysis from the femoral neck. SCFE can be caused by various endocrinopathies that lead to bone weakening in both adult and pediatric patients. We report a rare case of suprasellar germinoma presenting with SCFE in an 11-year-old female patient. The findings of this case further suppo...

Osteochondritis of the distal tibial epiphysis is a very rare entity. 9 cases have been described in 7 articles and 8 other cases have been mentioned in textbooks. This paper describes the 10th case of osteochondritis of the distal tibial epiphysis and summarizes the clinical and radiological presentations of the 9 other cases. The etiology of this entity is well debated in the literature. We b...

Since Stephen Hales (1769) demonstrated that the distance separating holes pierced through the leg and shin bone of a half-grown chick did not increase despite the increase in length of the whole leg, subsequent investigators, including Hunter (1837), Dubreuil (1913), Haas (1926), Payton (1932) and Lacroix (1949), have established that the epiphysial cartilage is the main site of growth in leng...

In this research, hand wrist bone Identification for human forensic is discussed. Hand wrist bone is one of the effective methods used in the forensic science for age identification. There are four techniques used in this research: cropping image, preprocessing, Quadrant Ballon Snake and identification. The first step is to crop image on metaphysis and epiphysis bone. The second step is preproc...

Fractures of the neck of the femur account for less than 1% of all paediatric fractures. The complications after this injury are very frequent, the most significant being avascular necrosis. Slipped capital femoral epiphysis is a well-known disorder of the hip in children that is characterised by displacement of the capital femoral epiphysis from the metaphysic through the physis. In the vast m...

Purpose of review Slipped capital femoral epiphysis is a common adolescent hip disorder. Management of chronic, stable slipped capital femoral epiphysis with in-situ screw fixation has been well defined, but controversy exists regarding management of the unstable hip disorder, the indications for prophylactic fixation of the contralateral hip and the role of osteotomy in the management of resid...

It is the purpose of this paper to describe and illustrate how alterations in the fertility and position of the primary and secondary epiphyses may affect the shape and length of the upper end of the femur. It is suggested that under normal conditions of growth two processes are involved: firstly, ossification of parts of the cartilaginous anlage ; and secondly, growth of the whole. Ossificatio...