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DEFINITION OF TERMS
head in the hip), Köhler's disease (of the tarsal navicular bone of the foot),
Panner's disease (of the capitulum of the elbow), and Freiberg's infraction (of the
Freiberg's disease)
heel), and Kienbock's disease of the hand, and other conditions not completely
single factor accounting for all aspects of the disease. The principal lesion of
therefore does not become converted to bone. The persisting cartilage is soft and
reddish, and the subjacent bone marrow is edematous and hyperemic. However,
prior to the point of the disease at which a focal failure of enchondral ossification
growth cartilage and involves neither the overlying articular cartilage nor the
underlying subchondral bone. It has been designated that there is the presence
necrotic cartilage and extends through the articular cartilage (cartilage flap or
dissecans (OCD).
IV.NURSING DIAGNOSIS
venous return.
immobilization device.
disorder.
V. DIAGNOSTICS
• X-ray studies initially may not be useful, because they can be normal or
REFERENCES:
Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by W. W. Hay, Jr., et al. Stamford: Appleton &
Lange, 1997.
1980;8:333.