Osteochondrosis of the primary ossification center (Köhler's disease of the patella), however, is infrequently described in the literature. Our case seems to be the first case of isolated painful ...

I think, generally speaking, the pathophysiology which is inducing this ossification is still not well known,” Armin Curt, MD, of the University of Zurich Spinal Cord Injury Center at Balgrist ...

Skeletal progenitors were isolated from fetal bones (humerus, radius, tibia ... Histological analyses of endochondral ossification were performed on sections that were obtained from either ...

In his original paper, Köhler also described one instance of an osteochondrosis of the primary patellar ossification center, a clinical entity that has since rarely been reported. We present a ...