Arthur Thornton Legg
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U.S. orthopaedic surgeon, 1874-1939.
Biography of Arthur Thornton Legg
Arthur Thornton Legg graduated from Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1900. In 1910, when he described the disorder named after him, he was a junior assistant surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Legg was instructor in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard from 1917, and in 1931 he was promoted to assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery.
Bibliography
He described Calvé-Legg-Perthes disease in:
- The cause of atrophy in joint disease.
American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, 1908-1909, 6: 84-90.
- An obscure affection of the hip-joint.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1910, 162: 202-204.
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