Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease: A review of cases with onset before six years of age

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 89 A, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2712-2722

  Rosenfeld, Scott B ^a   Herring, John A ^b   Chao, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACE; CAST APPLICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS TENOTOMY; LATERAL PILLAR CLASSIFICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PERTHES DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPLINT; STULBERG CLASSIFICATION; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X RAY FILM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; PLASTER CAST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE OF ONSET; BRACES; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LEGG-PERTHES DISEASE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 36849037510     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.G.00191     Document Type: Review

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