Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease
osteochondrosis that results in death and fracture located in hip joint
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Summary
Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease is a rare disease[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Karel Maydl[2]
- Instance of: class of disease[3], symptom or sign[4]
- Named after: Georg Perthes[5], Arthur Thornton Legg[6], Jacques Calvé[7]
- Subclass of: osteochondrosis[8], osteonecrosis of the femoral head[9], type 2 collagen-related bone disorder[10], osteochondrosis of genetic origin[11]
- ICPC 2 ID: L94[12]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[13]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34766[14]
- Health specialty: rheumatology[15], orthopedics[16]
- Genetic association: COL2A1[17]
- Age of onset: childhood onset[18]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[19]
- Has phenotype: tooth abnormality[20], joint dislocation[21], Delayed skeletal maturation[22], arthralgia[23], skeletal muscle atrophy[24], short stature[25], osteonecrosis[26]
- P14541: 2xisw6[27], 11kCQL[28]
- P14914: D02380[29]