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slipped capital femoral epiphysis SCFE CHORUS

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Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00371.html

Description: * boys> girls
* age 10 - 15 yrs
* blacks> whites (unlike CHD + Legg-Perthes disease)
* related to height, weight, athletic activity
* if BILATERAL ==> renal osteodystrophy
* femoral epiphysis slips POSTERIORLY and MEDIALLY
* use frog-leg + lateral projections
* complications:
  o AVN
  o acute cartilage necrosis (chondrolysis)
  o varus deformity

Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD
Institution: CHORUS
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Language: English

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Added: Thu Jan 31 2002
Last Modified: Mon Aug 03 2009