Mau finds a nice metaphor from the world of medicine for his thesis that the East will remain different in the long term: ossification. This phenomenon is "somewhat open to interpretation, because it ...

Osteochondrosis of the primary ossification center (Köhler's disease of the patella), however, is infrequently described in the literature. Our case seems to be the first case of isolated painful ...

A left knee MRI (Figure 1C) demonstrated fragmentation of the primary patellar ossification center with diffusely decreased T1-weighted signal and corresponding enhancement on T2-weighted sequences.