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Case 51 Osgood-Schlatter disease
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Description: 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 (correlates with ossification dates)
* Bilateral 25-50%
* Controversy regarding etiology, natural history, and treatment.
Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: GUTTMAN & McKenzie
Institution: Dupont Institute
Primary Subject/Category:
- - Case Presentations: Paediatrics
- - OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Osteochondroses: Osgood Schlatter Disease
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Added: Mon Feb 04 2002
Last Modified: Sun Dec 06 2009