A simple, precocious, and reliable way to assess future clinical outcome in children with Perthes disease and mild femoral head involvement: correlation between MRI with diffusion-weighted and dynamic gadolinium-enhanced subtraction and Catterall and Herring classifications.
Vincenzo De RosaMeryle LaurentFederico CanaveseLaura MerliniPublished in: European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie (2018)
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.