Erschienen in:
01.01.2014 | Letter to the Editors
Long-term outcome of Osgood-Schlatter disease: not always favorable
verfasst von:
Selami Çakmak, Levent Tekin, Selim Akarsu
Erschienen in:
Rheumatology International
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Ausgabe 1/2014
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Excerpt
Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD), which named for the doctors that first described it in 1903, is a disease of preadolescent children (usually boys with 11–15 years of age) whereby tractional injury of the tibial tuberosity leading to avulsion of a proximal part of it occurs [
1,
2]. Clinically, it is characterized by pain, swelling and enlargement of the proximal tibia at the site of the patellar tendon’s insertion. The prognosis of OSD is usually self-limiting course. Long-term outcome is good for the majority of the patients. Complications (i.e., pseudarthrosis, genu recurvatum, patella alta, fragmentation/migration of the ossicle) potentially leading to early osteoarthritis can occur in the chronic stage [
3]. …