Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease

A rare disorder characterized by uni- or bilateral avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head in children.

Obesity

Accumulation of substantial excess body fat.


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PMID (PMCID)
26656361
(5008506)
 FEMALE
Bariatric Bypass Surgery to Resolve Complicated Childhood Morbid Obesity: Case Report Study.
Elbanna A, Eldin MT, Fathy M, Osman O, Abdelfattah M, Safwat A, Elkader MS, Bilasy SE, Salama K, Elnour AA, Shehab A, Baghdady S, Amer M, Alboraie M, Ragb A, Abd Elrazek AE.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2015;94(49):e2221.
Despite the rising interest in bariatric surgery for children, only laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is being considered in resolving childhood obesity who failed other dietary or drug therapies; however many of LSG procedures failed to reduce the weight in children or resulted in complications postsurgery.Here, we present a novel bariatric procedure to clue out a female child 13 years old presented with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease-associated morbid obesity.
26656361
(5008506)
 FEMALE
Bariatric Bypass Surgery to Resolve Complicated Childhood Morbid Obesity: Case Report Study.
Elbanna A, Eldin MT, Fathy M, Osman O, Abdelfattah M, Safwat A, Elkader MS, Bilasy SE, Salama K, Elnour AA, Shehab A, Baghdady S, Amer M, Alboraie M, Ragb A, Abd Elrazek AE.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2015;94(49):e2221.
Despite the rising interest in bariatric surgery for children, only laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is being considered in resolving childhood obesity who failed other dietary or drug therapies; however many of LSG procedures failed to reduce the weight in children or resulted in complications postsurgery.Here, we present a novel bariatric procedure to clue out a female child 13 years old presented with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease-associated morbid obesity.