[Osteochondritis dissecans of the elbow (presentation of 2 rare cases)]

Chir Ital. 1984 Oct;36(5):934-40.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The authors show two cases of dissecting osteochondritis of elbow, confirming the frequent absence of a clinical symptomatology in the initial stages of such disease and the benignancy of its course. From a careful study of the casuistries present in literature, what emerges is the rareness of this location, together with a prudent therapeutical trend with periodic clinical and radiographical checkings, reserving the surgical solution to the cases of articular free body with episodes of block.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Elbow*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Osteochondritis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteochondritis Dissecans / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteochondritis Dissecans / surgery
  • Radiography