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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis associated with peripheral osteoarticular tuberculosis
D M Farrington1, F Melini de Paz, J C Moral Pinteño
1Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville 41014, Spain.
Abstract:
We report a case of slipped capital femoral epiphysis that developed associated with a peripheral osteoarticular tuberculosis lesion located at the proximal metaphysis of the femur in contact with the growth plate in a 12-year-old boy. Multiple factors have been involved in slipped capital femoral epiphysis pathogenesis, but we believe an osteoarticular tuberculosis lesion is not a common finding as a possible etiological factor causing weakness of the growth plate and, therefore, the femoral head displacement.
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