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Osgood-Schlatter Disease: Multimedia
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![]() | Media file 1: Radiograph of a patient who is skeletally mature. Note that the tibial tubercle is enlarged and there is an ossicle. A bursa was overlying this. |
![]() | Media file 2: Radiograph of a patient who is skeletally immature. The tubercle is elongated and fragmented. |
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Keywords
Osgood-Schlatter disease, OS, OS disease, knee pain, knee injury, apophysitis tibialis adolescentium, Schlatter's disease, Schlatter disease, Schlatter-Osgood disease, traction apophysitis, partial avulsion fracture, proximal tibial tuberosity, patellar insertion, extra-articular disease, quadriceps atrophy, exercise, chronic microtrauma, overuse of quadriceps muscle, repetitive jumping sports, rapid skeletal growth




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