Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Nigerians.
Ten new patients with Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease were seen in the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in ten years, out of a hospital pediatric population of 550,000, giving an incidence of 1:55,000. This result is consistent with previous reports that Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is less common in Negroes than in Caucasians but Negroes are not immune.
D044383:Black People; D006801:Humans; D007873:Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease / Q000235:genetics* / Q000628:therapy; D009549:Nigeria; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000235:genetics*