Poliomyelitis

Case contributed by Ritu Lokhande
Diagnosis probable

Patient Data

Gender: Male
x-ray

Unilateral hypertrophy of right sided soft tissuecausing shortening of right femur with decrese in neck shaft angle with right sided capital epiphysis appearing small in size and displaced superolaterally

Case Discussion

Poliomyelitis used to be known as Heine-Medin disease. 

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