[Diagnostic significance of certain cellular immune system disorders in children with Perthes disease]. / Diagnosticheskoe znechenie nekotorykh narushenii kletochnogo zvena immunnoi sistemu u detei s bolezn'iu Pertesa.

Data are submitted to the effect that parameters associated with the cell link of the immune system should allow some judgement about character and degree of time-related immunological abnormalities in children with Perthes disease. In the earliest stages of the illness immunological abnormalities are in large measure related to the presence of foci of chronic bacterial infection as evidenced by a high NBT-test. The above immunological abnormalities aggravate the course of aseptic necrosis of the hip joint or they serve as a trigger mechanism of its development.