. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . pockets from internal erosion and irregu-larly distributed new bone formation on thepart of the periosteum. Perthes Disease.—The reduction in densi-ty in Perthes disease is due to breakingdown of the center of ossification in theepiphysis of the femoral head. This leads tosecondary flattening of the head and to alter-ations in the shape of acetabuhmi and a case of nine months standing (D. , Operation for Epiphysitis of theHead of the Femur [Perthes Disease]:Findings and Result. Archives of Surgery
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . pockets from internal erosion and irregu-larly distributed new bone formation on thepart of the periosteum. Perthes Disease.—The reduction in densi-ty in Perthes disease is due to breakingdown of the center of ossification in theepiphysis of the femoral head. This leads tosecondary flattening of the head and to alter-ations in the shape of acetabuhmi and a case of nine months standing (D. , Operation for Epiphysitis of theHead of the Femur [Perthes Disease]:Findings and Result. Archives of Surgery,March, 1921, Vol. II, ), in which therewere roentgenological evidences of bone de- struction with flattening and cavity and se-questrum formation, operation with excisionof a window from the cartilage of the headrevealed a broken-down center filled withsoft tissue, which was partly necrotic, andwith various-sized sequestra. Microscopic ex-amination of the contents showed granula-tion tissue with evidences of active absorp-tion in the sequestra and cartilaginous wall. Fig. 28. Specimen excised from case in Figure —Eroded cortex showing through window.
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