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Recurrent Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease: case report and long-term followup.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research - 1 Apr 2001
Stevens D B, Tao S S, Glueck C J
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This is the seventh reported case of recurrent Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. The report documents the initial onset in a boy 4 years of age with healing clinically and radiographically. The boy experienced recurrence of disease at 8 years of age with last followup at 20 years of age. Tests related to blood hypercoagulability and hypofibrinolysis and certain genetic factors relevant to osteonecrosis of the bone are...
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