Open reduction, Dega osteotomy and proximal femoral osteotomy in delayed diagnosis of developmental hip dislocation: outcome at 40-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Late-diagnosed dislocated hips underwent open reduction, Dega osteotomy, and proximal femoral osteotomy between 1968 and 1988. The objectives of this study are to assess the survival of hips into adulthood, clinical and radiological outcome, patients' life perspectives and the risk factors of failure.

Methods

An assessment of 67 hips treated when younger than five years (

SUBMITTER: Wozniak L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8138783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature