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Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD)
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is a developmental orthopedic disease that affects young small breed dogs and characterized by non-inflammatory local ischemia to the femoral head with subsequent deformation of the femoral head and neck. Surgery is currently the best treatment option.
Retained ulnar cartilage cores (RCC)
Retained ulnar cartilage cores (RCC) is a developmental disorder in young, large and giant breed dogs characterized by a failure of endochondral ossification in the distal ulnar physis, leading to physeal calcification arrest, restricted growth of forelimb and consequently angular limb deformities
Hypertrophic Osteodistrophy
Hypertrophic osteodystrophy (HOD) is developmental orthopedic disease that affects rapidly growing large- and giant-breed dogs between 2 and 8 months of age.
Symptoms vary from mild to severe and consists in warm, swollen and painful metaphyseal region in long bones.
Weimaraner is one of the overrepresented breeds affected by this condition.
Canine Panosteitis
Canine Panosteitis is an acquired self-limiting inflammatory developmental orthopedic disease that affects rapidly growing large- and giant-breed dogs, typically between 5 and 18 months of age.