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Perrin-Ferraton disease
Also known as:
Perrin’s schnellende Hüfte (German)
Maladie de Perrin-Ferraton (French)
Synonyms:
Hip snap, snapping hip, snapping hip disorder.
Associated persons:
Louis-Marius Ferraton
Maurice Constantin Perrin
Description:
A condition marked by an audible snap in certain movements of the hip, due to the slipping of a tendinous band over the greater trochanter.
We thank Ed Klauck and Patrick Jucker-Kupper for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- M. C. Perrin:
Luxation traumatique suivie de luxation volontaire du fémur droit; Remarques au sujet des luxations volontaires du femur.
Bulletin de la Sociéte de chirurgie de Paris (1859), 1860; 10: 12-21
- L. Ferraton:
Hanche à ressort; ressaut fessier-trochantérien.
Revue d'orthopédie, Paris, 1905, 2 Sér., 6: 45-51.
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