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... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Necrosis > Osteonecrosis > Femur Head Necrosis > Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Osteonecrosis > Femur Head Necrosis > Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease

Preferred term

Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coxa Plana
  • Disease, Legg-Calvé-Perthes
  • Disease, Legg-Perthes
  • Disease, Perthes
  • Legg Calvé Perthes Disease
  • Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
  • Legg Calve Perthes Syndrome
  • Legg-Calve-Perthes Syndrome
  • Legg Calvé Perthes Syndrome
  • Legg-Calvé-Perthes Syndrome
  • Legg Perthes Disease
  • Legg-Perthes Disease
  • Osteochondritis Deforman
  • Osteochondritis Deformans
  • Perthes Disease
  • Syndrome, Legg-Calve-Perthes
  • Syndrome, Legg-Calvé-Perthes

Scope note

  • A particular type of FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS occurring in children, mainly male, with a course of four years or so.

History note

  • 2012 (1963); for COXA PLANA see OSTEOCHRONDRITIS 1963-1978

In other languages

  • Legg-Calvé-Perthesin tauti

    Finnish

  • Calve
  • Calvé
  • lasten reisiluun pään osteokondroosi
  • legg
  • Legg-Calve-Perthes
  • Legg-Calvé-Perthes
  • Legg-Calve-Perthesin tauti
  • Legg-Perthes
  • Legg-Perthesin tauti
  • morbus Legg-Calve-Perthes
  • morbus Legg-Calvé-Perthes
  • morbus Legg-Perthes
  • morbus Perthes
  • osteochondrosis coxae
  • osteochondrosis juvenilis capitis femoris
  • Perthes
  • Perthesin tauti
  • reisiluun pään osteokondroosi
  • Legg-Calve-Perthes sjukdom

    Swedish

  • Legg-Perthes sjukdom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007873

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