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Blount disease is an uncommon growth disorder characterized by disordered ossification of the medial aspect of the proximal tibial physis, epiphysis, and metaphysis. This progressive deformity is manifested by varus angulation and internal...

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A brief overview of normal age-related angulation changes in the knee joint helps improve understanding the disease process. A pronounced varus angulation is seen in newborns and in children younger than 1 year. Varus angulation...

Blount's disease aka/or Proximal tibial osteochondrosis may cause or feature Symptoms and Signs Genu varum Leg pain

Blount’s disease is a developmental deformity of the proximal tibial epiphysis that results in bowing of the lower extremities. It is divided into two forms: infantile and late-onset, which are determined based upon the age of onset and associated conditions. The deformity is thought to be a result of disturbed...

Freiberg's Disease Case Presentation: HISTORY: 15 + 4 year old female with left foot pain near the fourth toe for one year. She had no antecedent trauma. She described her pain as a constant, dull ache which had been getting progressively worse. PHYSICAL EXAM: She complained of exquisite tenderness with...

KÖHLER'S DISEASE OF THE TARSAL NAVICULAR Case Presentation -a 3 year old girl who presented to the Orthopaedic Clinic with a complaint of left foot pain exacerbated by bearing weight. Four weeks prior to this visit, the patient's 4 year old sister had jumped onto her left foot during play...

Osgood-Schlatter Disease
* Originally described simultaneously by Osgood and Schlatter in 1903
* Lesion affects adolescent apophysis of proximal tibia (particularly in young athletes)
* More commonly affects boys than girls (3:1)
* Boys are older at presentation...

Blount's Disease, The Alfred I. duPont Institute.

* Etiology thought to be traction apophysitis secondary to repetitive microtrauma with partial avulsion, inflammation and new bone formation at the ligament insertion.
* Must differentiate from malignancy, infection, fracture, tendonitis and Sindling-Larsen- Johansson Disease.
* Should be referred to...

Illustrations of the surgical procedure

Another manifestation of juvenile traction osteochondritis? Batten J, Menelaus MB. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1985 Mar;67(2):249-51
Six boys with fragmentation of the proximal pole of the patella are reported; the condition was bilateral in one. Four of the six presented with symptoms of Osgood-Schlatter's disease or Larsen-Johansson disease of the...

Freiberg infraction

Synonyms and related keywords: infraction of the metatarsal head, osteochondrosis of the metatarsal heads, avascular necrosis of the metatarsal head, eggshell fracture, peculiar metatarsal disease, Koehler second disease, Panner disease of the metatarsals, osteochondritis deformans metatarso-juvenilis, malacopathia, subchondral bone fatigue fracture of the metatarsal head, dorsal trabecular stress injury of...

Xray illustration and discussion Freiberg-Kohler's disease is the only bone necrosis that is more often seen in girls than in boys.
II: partially detached osteochondral lesion
III: completely detached, non-displaced fragment
IV: detached and displaced fragment
There are 4 stages:
1. Initial stage with cartilaginous edema and joint effusion. The X-ray is still unnoticeable, in...

Freiberg's disease
aka/or Kohler second disease
aka/or Second metatarsal osteochondrosis
aka/or Freiberg infraction
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