THIS book has been recommended as the official text book for Queen's University students taking the introductory course in pharmacology and therapeutics at the start of their clinical work. It is an excellent book for these students who have just finished two years of physiology, for not only is much of the subject matter already familiar to them but the approach to the whole subject which is a...

INTRODUCTION Patellar damage during osteochondritis dissecans of the knee is rare. There were two objectives to this study: evaluate the functional results of surgical treatment by mosaicplasty in this disease as well as evaluate articular surface reconstruction and cylindrical bone plugs incorporation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Six consecutive cases of patella osteochondritis dissecans in young ...

The case of a 15-year-old boy, a high-performance motocross rider, who developed bilateral osteochondritis dissecans of the elbow is described. Both lesions were successfully treated by Herbert screw internal fixation.

We report the arthroscopic drilling of classical lesions of osteochondritis dissecans in 11 knees in 10 children with at least six months history and no sign of clinical or radiological improvement. There were eight boys and two girls and the average age at operation was 12 years 11 months. Relief of pain was noticed within days of operation; radiological healing occurred within 12 months in ni...

The cause of osteochondritis dissecans is still disputed. Axhausen (1912) suggested that the lesion could be embolic in origin, but Fairbank (1933) and Smillie (1951) believed that trauma was more likely to be responsible. The occurrence of multiple joint lesions, with a hereditary tendency, was demonstrated by Bernstein (1925), by Wagoner and Cohn (1931), by Gardiner (1955), and by Pick (1955)...