Büdinger-Ludloff-Läwen syndrome

Alternative eponyms

Synonyms

Chondromalacia patellae, chondromalacia posttraumatica patellae, chondropathia patellae, chondrosis of the patella, osteopathia patella, trumatic chondritis of the patellae.

Related people

Pathological separation of the cartilage of the patellae with fissures.

Description

Bibliography


K. Büdinger:
Über die Ablösung von Gelenkteilen und verwandte Prozesse.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1906, 84: 311-365.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1908, 92: 510.
English translation: The detachment or separation of parts of the joint and related processes. Konrad Büdinger. 1906. The classic.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, June 1984, (186): 2-4.

K. Ludloff:
Zur Pathologie des Kniegelenkes.
Verhandlungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, 1910, 39: 223-225.

A. Läwen:
Knorpelresektion bei fissuraler Knorpeldegeneration der Patellae - eine Frühoperation der Arthritis deformans.
Bruns Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie, Berlin, 1925, 134: 265-307.

P. Haglund:
Die hintere Patellarkontusion. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1926, 53: 1757.

H. Fründ:
Traumatische Chondropathie der Patellae, ein selbständiges Krankheitsbild.
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1926, 53: 707.

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