Degenerative osteoarthritis associated with osteopetrosis.

A case of osteopetrosis has been described in which bilateral osteoarthritis of the hips occurred before the age of 40. As the osteoarthritis was not explicable on the bases of deformity it was considered that osteoprtrosis might be the etiological factor. Further circumstantial evidence for this causal relationship has been found in a review of the literature.