Osgood Schlatter Disease (Subscribe)  

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...

* 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...

- type of juvenile traction osteochondritis;
- refers to partial avulsion of the tibial tuberosity (anterior surface of apophysis) which has no involvement of tibial physis;
- usually occurs in late childhood or...

Definition - Condition of apophysis into which part of patellar tendon inserts
Pulling Osteochondritis of Tibial Tubercle

ischemic necrosis / osteochondritis of the tibial tuberosity (insertion of patellar tendon, site of traumatic injury)
* ST swelling
* fragmented apophysis with irregularly increased density
* males (75-85%)
* age: 10-15 (boys), 8-13 (girls)
* 25% bilateral

Osgood-Schlatter (OS) disease is more appropriately described as a disorder or a condition. Osgood, in the English literature, and Schlatter, in the German literature, independently described this condition in 1903. The etiology and treatment of OS condition have been disputed since its original description. OS condition is a traction phenomenon resulting...