INCORRECT


The correct answer is:

FALSE:

All of the above is true except Osgood-Schlatter disease is not similar to Perthes which is an avascular necrosis of the femoral epiphysis and this is an over use syndrome of the apophysis whose symptoms are caused by repeat microtrauma.


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