Brailsford's disease and Kohler's disease are two conditions of uncertain etiology affecting the navicular in adults and children, respectively. Kohler's disease has been universally agreed to have an excellent outcome in all cases. There have been no recorded cases of a child with Kohler's disease having persistent clinical and radiological abnormalities into adulthood and no cases of patients with Brailsford's disease having had abnormalities in childhood. This case report presents a teenage patient with osteochondritis of the navicular bone with symptoms that persisted into skeletal maturity.
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