Diagnostic significance of certain cellular immune system disorders in children with Perthes disease
Goncharova, L.D.; Donchenko, L.I.; Zolotukhin, S.E.; Klimovitskiĭ, F.V.
Likars'ka Sprava 2000(7-8): 44-47
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297 PMID: 16786646 Document Number: 515247
Data are submitted to the effect that parameters associated with the cell link of the immune system should allow some judgement about character and degree of time-related immunological abnormalities in children with Perthes disease. In the earliest stages of the illness immunological abnormalities are in large measure related to the presence of foci of chronic bacterial infection as evidenced by a high NBT-test. The above immunological abnormalities aggravate the course of aseptic necrosis of the hip joint or they serve as a trigger mechanism of its development.