Cartilage Overgrowth of the Femroal Head and Acetabulum in Legg - Calve - Perthes' Disease as Viewed on MRI / 대한정형외과학회잡지

Eighteen patients(19 affected hips and 17 unaffected hips) with Legg-Calve-Perthes' disease(LCP) were reviewed to evaluate the relationship between medial joint space widening and lateral subluxation of the femoral head. MRI was used to evaluate components in widened medial joint space in radiographs. There was increased cartilage thickness of the femoral head and acetabulum and increased joint tluid which represented synovial hypertrophy in the widened medial joint space in radiographs. Increased cartilage thickness was found at the mediai aspect of the femoral head and at the lateral and posterior walls of the acetabulum when compared to unaffected hips and normal control hips. Widening of the medial joint space was related to lateral subluxation of the femoral head during the fragmentation or remodeling stage, not always during the avascular stage, in LCP. Widening of the medial joint space did not change remarkably after a Salter osteotomy or femoral varus derotational osteotomy because of the remaining cartilage thickness.

Cartilage Overgrowth of the Femroal Head and Acetabulum in Legg-Galvé-Perthes' Disease as Viewed on Mri / 대한정형외과학회잡지

Eighteen patients(19 affected hips and 17 unaffected hips) with Legg-Galvé-Perthes' Disease(LCP) were reviewed to evaluate the relationship between medial joint space widening and lateral subluxation of the femoral head. MRI was used to evaluate components in widened medial joint space in radiographs. There was increased cartilage thickness of the femoral head and acetabulum and increased joint fluid which represented synovial hypertrophy in the widened medial joint space in radiographs. Increased cartilage thickness was found at the medial aspect of the femoral head and at the lateral and posterior walls of the acetabulum when compared to unaffected hips and normal control hips. Widening of the medial joing space was related to lateral subluxation of the femoral head during the fragmentation or remodeling stage, not always during the avascular stage, in LCP. Widening of the medial joint space did not change remarkably after a Salter osteotomy or femoral varus derotational osteotomy because of the remaining cartilage thickness.

Dysplasia Epiphysealis Hemimelica: A Case Report / 대한정형외과학회잡지

A case of dysplasia eplphyseaalis hemlmelica (Fairbank, 1956) in a 8 years old boy, showlng typical clinical and roentgenographical appearance, is reported together wlth a brief review of literature in this paper. This condition is a rare developmental disorder of childhood in which there is a asymmetrical cartilaginous overgrowth of one or more than one epiphysis, or of a tarsal or carpal bone. Thls disorder is usually Iimited to elther the medial or lateral half of a single extremity. The disease is characterised radiographically by delay in the appearance of the epiphyseal nucleus, which is mottied and of irregular density. The most common deformities were genu valgum or varum and valgus or equinus deformity of the ankle. These deformities tended to increased wlth growth but the size of the lesion increased in proportion to the growth of the normal bone. Concomitant involvement of the knee and ankle is the rule, and in those cases the affected limb Is usually longer than Its mate. The lesion Is often microscopically indistingulshable from an osteochondroma.