title: Bilateral osteochondrosis of lateral femoral condyles: case report and literature review.
abstract: Osteochondrosis is an injury on subchondral ossification with predominance of immature skeleton and whose etiology remains unknown. It may affect the femoral condyles (usually the medial condyle) and the involvement is mostly unilateral. The authors draw the attention to this usually late diagnosis due to its infrequent occurrence and report a child's rare case of bilateral osteochondrosis on lateral femoral condyles, stressing that just one similar case has been described in the orthopaedic literature up to the present time.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Blanca Elena Rios Gomes
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Bica
authors.forename: Danilo Garcia
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: Fernanda Frade
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Paranhos
authors.forename: Antônio Vítor
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: de Abreu
authors.forename: Mário Newton Leitão
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: de Azevedo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005269:Femur; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D007719:Knee Joint; D008297:Male; D055034:Osteochondrosis / Q000473:pathology*