The Long-Term Outcome After Varus Derotational Osteotomy for Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease: A Mean Follow-up of 42 Years

Conclusions: A long-term follow-up of patients who were operatively treated for Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease revealed that a low proportion underwent total hip arthroplasty and a relatively high proportion maintained good clinical and radiographic outcomes. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

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Source: JBJS - August 2, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Shohat, N., Copeliovitch, L., Smorgick, Y., Atzmon, R., Mirovsky, Y., Shabshin, N., Beer, Y., Agar, G. Tags: Hip, Pediatrics Scientific Articles Source Type: research