At the age of 14 Gates was injured playing touch football, fracturing the ball and socket joint of his hip, resulting in a slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
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He was also credited with an osteotomy ( Southwick osteotomy ) for the treatment of Slipped capital femoral epiphysis ( SCFE ) or slipped upper femoral epithysis ( SUFE ).
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Clinical avascular necrosis most commonly affects the ends ( epiphysis ) of long bones such as the femur ( the bone extending from the knee joint to the hip joint ).
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By convention, position and alignment in SCFE is described by referring to the relationship of the proximal fragment ( capital femoral epiphysis ) to the normal distal fragment ( femoral neck ).
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I have asked before about the role of epiphyseal plates in OCD . The article mentions them, which implies they have some role and therefore that the entire epiphysis is somehow involved.
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The positive Drehmann sign is a typical clinical feature in slipped capital femoral epiphysis ( SCFE ), the impingement syndrome, Legg Calv? Perthes disease or in osteoarthritis of the hip joint.
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I now understand they have none, and I have edited Epiphysis to mention of the " other " growth zone ( not a plate ) on the epiphysis : the subchondral bone.
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I now understand they have none, and I have edited Epiphysis to mention of the " other " growth zone ( not a plate ) on the epiphysis : the subchondral bone.
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It has a Curved longitudinal axis, a pointed distal tip, an entirely absent apophyses, a rounded shape for its proximal epiphysis, and lastly a pivot and monoaxial articulation phalange terminal-interclary element.
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The paratypes include the eight specimens ( five females and three males ), NRIFSF1-8 ( National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency, vertebra with associated epiphysis were collected from each individual.
