Congenital abnormalities and Perthes' disease. Clinical evidence that children with Perthes' disease may have a major congenital defect.

  • 1 February 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 61  (1) , 18-25
Abstract
This paper reports a high incidence of minor congenital anomalies in boys and girls with Perthes' disease compared with that in a control population. There is a similarity of the incidence of minor anomalies in the children with Perthes' disease to that in babies with a single major congenital defect. Multiple major defects were more numerous and more severe than in the control children. It is speculated that there may be a congenital abnormality affecting skeletal development which in some way makes the hip susceptible to Perthes' disease at a later date.

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