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Osteochondritis is a painful type of osteochondrosis where the cartilage or bone in a joint is inflamed. [1]It often refers to osteochondritis dissecans (OCD). The term dissecans refers to the "creation of a flap of cartilage that further dissects away from its underlying subchondral attachments (dissecans)".
Medical condition Osteochondritis dissecans A large flap lesion in the femur head typical of late stage Osteochondritis dissecans. In this case, the lesion was caused by avascular necrosis of the bone just under the cartilage. Pronunciation / ˌ ɒ s t i. oʊ k ɒ n ˈ d r aɪ t ɪ s ˈ d ɪ s ɪ k æ n z / Specialty Orthopedic surgery Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD or OD) is a joint disorder ...
In dogs osteochondrosis is seen in elbow, shoulder, knee, and ankle joints.Elbow osteochondrosis is also known as "elbow dysplasia".There are three types of elbow dysplasia: fragmented medial coronoid process, ununited anconeal process and Osteochondritis dissecans of the medial humeral condyle.
Front X-ray of right knee of an adolescent (epiphyseal plates are open): arrows point to avascular necrosis and developing osteochondritis dissecans in the outer medial condyle of femur. In the early stages, bone scintigraphy and MRI are the preferred diagnostic tools. [18] [19] X-ray images of avascular necrosis in the early stages usually ...
Osteochondropathy refers to a disease ("-pathy") of the bone and cartilage. [1]However, it is more common to refer to these conditions as one of the following: chondropathy (disease of the cartilage)
An osteochondrodysplasia, [note 1] or skeletal dysplasia, is a disorder of the development of bone and cartilage. [1] Osteochondrodysplasias are rare diseases.About 1 in 5,000 babies are born with some type of skeletal dysplasia. [2]
Most primary lesions are related to osteochondrosis, a disease of the joint cartilage, and osteochondritis dissecans (OCD), the separation of a flap of cartilage on the joint surface. Other common causes of elbow dysplasia include an ununited anconeal process (UAP) and fragmented or ununited medial coronoid process (FCP or FMCP).
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