= FAIRBANK DISEASE

[Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank (1876–1961), English orthopedic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London]

= ? tarda form of chondrodystrophia calcificans congenita

• mild limb shortening
• irregular mottled calcifications of epiphyses (in childhood + adolescence)
• epiphyseal irregularities + premature degenerative joint disease, especially of hips (in adulthood)
• short phalanges

DDx: Legg-Perthes disease, hypothyroidism