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Idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip. A distinct clinical entity?
H van der Hoeven1, W Keessen, W Kuis
1University Hospital for Children and Youth Het Wilhelmina Kinder Ziekenhuis, Dept. of Orthopedics and Pediatric Rheumatology, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica
|December 1, 1989
Abstract:
We report 4 cases of idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip in children, a rare disease. In several aspects, there was a close resemblance to classical pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis. Hence, we question the clinical entity denoted as idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip.