Vincenzo De Rosa1, Meryle Laurent2, Federico Canavese3, Laura Merlini2. 1. Bellinzona et Valli Regional Hospital, Via Ospedale, 6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland. 2. Department of Pediatric Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals (HUGe), Rue Willy Donzé 6, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland. 3. Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Estaing, 1 Place Lucie et Raymond Aubrac, 63003, Clermont Ferrand, France. canavese_federico@yahoo.fr.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In children older than 5 years with a mild form of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, the outcome is difficult to predict. In this study, we retrospectively correlated gadolinium-enhanced subtracted (DGS) and diffusion (DWI) MRI findings to the radiographic assessment according to the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications and to the final score according to Stulberg et al.: the aim was to identify a precocious, simple, and objective criterion to differentiate between forms evolving favourably and forms requiring an early surgical treatment in order to avoid femoral head deformity and subsequent osteoarthritis. METHODS: Twelve boys with unilateral mild femoral head involvement (Catterall grade 2 or grade 3) underwent DSG and DWI MR during the early phase of the disease. The absence of enhancement of the external pillar on DSG MRI and the presence of metaphyseal hyperintensity on DWI were considered to be the signs of poor outcome. These findings were correlated with the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications at the initial sclerotic stage and early fragmentation phase and with the Stulberg et al. classifications at least 5 years after the onset of the disease. RESULTS: DSG MRI findings correctly discriminated three out of four patients with a good outcome but underestimated two out of eight patients with a poor outcome. DWI findings correlated with the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications in 12 out of 12 cases. In only one case, DWI findings did not correlate with the Stulberg et al. classification. CONCLUSION: DWI MR provides an objective and accurate prognostic criterion that is relatively easy to recognise. DGS MR findings are less accurate, thus underestimating the gravity of the disease in one-fourth of the patients with a poor outcome.
BACKGROUND: In children older than 5 years with a mild form of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, the outcome is difficult to predict. In this study, we retrospectively correlated gadolinium-enhanced subtracted (DGS) and diffusion (DWI) MRI findings to the radiographic assessment according to the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications and to the final score according to Stulberg et al.: the aim was to identify a precocious, simple, and objective criterion to differentiate between forms evolving favourably and forms requiring an early surgical treatment in order to avoid femoral head deformity and subsequent osteoarthritis. METHODS: Twelve boys with unilateral mild femoral head involvement (Catterall grade 2 or grade 3) underwent DSG and DWI MR during the early phase of the disease. The absence of enhancement of the external pillar on DSG MRI and the presence of metaphyseal hyperintensity on DWI were considered to be the signs of poor outcome. These findings were correlated with the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications at the initial sclerotic stage and early fragmentation phase and with the Stulberg et al. classifications at least 5 years after the onset of the disease. RESULTS: DSG MRI findings correctly discriminated three out of four patients with a good outcome but underestimated two out of eight patients with a poor outcome. DWI findings correlated with the Catterall and Herring et al. classifications in 12 out of 12 cases. In only one case, DWI findings did not correlate with the Stulberg et al. classification. CONCLUSION: DWI MR provides an objective and accurate prognostic criterion that is relatively easy to recognise. DGS MR findings are less accurate, thus underestimating the gravity of the disease in one-fourth of the patients with a poor outcome.
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