Kohlers Disease (Subscribe)  

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...

osteochondrosis of tarsal navicular

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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Discussion: - self limiting avasulcar necrosis of the navicular; - usually unilateral and affects children, most often boys; - onset is at age 4 in boys and age 5 in girls; - navicular is...

Kohler first disease aka/or Osteochondrosis of tarsal navicular

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Please note that some authors use the term Second Kohlers or Freiberg-Kohlers or Kohlers II for Osteochondritis of the 2nd metatarsal (usually Freiberg's Disease)

Ramachandran KR, Sasidharan K, Kusumakumary P, Ittiyavirah AK, Krishnakumar AS. Osteochondritis of the tarsal navicular bone (kohler's disease) occurring in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Indian J Radiol Imaging 1999;9:153-154
Osteochondritis is a disease of one or more epiphyses beginning as a necrosis followed by healing. Osteonecrosis is commonly encountered...

1937 JBJS Paper
This syndrome occurs predominantly in male children between the ages of two and one-half and seven and one-half years, and is manifested by pain, a limp, swelling, and localized tenderness in the foot. It is more frequently unilateral than bilateral and has a characteristic x-ray picture which is...

NAVICULAR OSTEONECROSIS: KOHLER'S DISEASE Contributed by: Residents Kaiser, Resident, Kaiser Permanente, California, USA. Patient: 5 year old male

In 1908, Köhler first described the disease named in his honor. This clinical entity belongs to a group of conditions called osteochondroses, which have been reported since 1903. Approximately 40 different osteochondroses are reported in the literature. In these self-limited diseases, there is avascular necrosis of primary or secondary centers...