PHYSEAL SLOPE IN PERTHES-DISEASE

Citation
Rt. Loder et al., PHYSEAL SLOPE IN PERTHES-DISEASE, Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume, 77(5), 1995, pp. 736-738
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,Orthopedics
ISSN journal
0301620X
Volume
77
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
736 - 738
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-620X(1995)77:5<736:PSIP>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
In 40 children with unilateral Perthes' disease, we measured the physe al slope, the angle between the physeal plane and the axis of the femo ral shaft, from radiographs taken early in the disease, Thirty-seven o f the 40 hips were classified as Catterall grades III and IV, Head-at- risk signs were present in 23. We found no statistically significant d ifference in the physeal slope between the involved and normal hips (p =0.20), those with or without head-at-risk signs (p=0.96), those with or without lateral epiphyseal subluxation (p=0.82), and different Catt erall (p=0.56) or lateral pillar (p=0.67) gradings.