50 Years Ago in CORR: Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (LCPS): An up-to-date critical review Charles W. Goff, MD CORR 1962;22:93–107

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Three independent seminal papers published in 1911 by Arthur Legg [9, 10], Jacque Calvé [3, 4], and Georg Perthes [12, 13] described what we now know as “Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease” (LCPD) and distinguished the entity from other forms of a deforming arthritis that affected children. At that time, arthritis deformans (as it was frequently known) was sometimes not recognized until adolescence and young adulthood. Others [1, 2, 11, 14] had earlier described the entity but had not so clearly distinguished it from other disorders, particularly tuberculosis of the hip. (The earliest apparent descriptions by Baker [2] and Wright [14] appear as brief notes for the “Section of Diseases of Children” in the British Medical Journal.) By the mid 20^th century, the entity was well known. …