Alejandro Gamboa Márquez, Garzón-Alvarado DA

Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 97-104
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ABSTRACT

The Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is a disorder characterized by the avascular necrosis of femoral head of developing skeleton. Although this disease was described a century ago still there is a significant controversy on its etiology and its treatment. Between etiology and treatment there is a close relation with biological and mechanical events. The knowledge of such events and of its combined action, could give rise to a better understanding and management of this disease. Present paper proposes a approach to this understanding by means of the use of a computer modeling, which must to has into account among other factors, the disease pathogenesis and the different results depending on age of appearance in the child.

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