Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1941;23:903-909.
© 1941 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS OF ANKLE JOINT
The Use of Tomography as a Diagnostic Aid
MERRILL C. MENSOR M.D., F.A.C.S.1 and
GEORGE F. MELODY M.D.1
1 Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco
The publishing of this case brings the total number of reported instances of osteochondritis dissecans of the ankle joint to twenty. The importance of tomography in the diagnosis and localization of obscure lesions of the osseous system is emphasized.