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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.