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Case of the Week 362



What's the most likely diagnosis?

  • 15 year-old boy with knee pain



Lateral Radiograph of Knee

  1. Wagon-wheel fracture
  2. Osgood-Schlatter Disease
  3. Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome
  4. Rickets
  5. Patellar fracture

Additional Image - AP Radiograph of Knee

 

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AP Radiograph of Knee

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2. Osgood-Schlatter Disease

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Osgood-Schlatter Disease


General Considerations

  • A clinical diagnosis, Osgood-Schlatter disease is a common cause of knee pain in adolescents between 10-15
  • Ossification center(s) of tibial tubercle (aka tuberosity) usually fuse to each other and tibia at age 12 (girls) to 13 (boys)

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