title: Slipped capital femoral epiphysis. Treatment by pinning in situ.
abstract: This paper retrospectively reviews 46 hips in 33 patients treated for slipped capital femoral epiphyses (SCFE) between December 1964 and January 1983. The average clinical and roentgenogram follow-up evaluation was seven years. Twenty-nine patients had in-situ pinning and four had primary Southwick osteotomies. Eighty-nine percent of the patients treated had acceptable results. Unacceptable results were directly related to preoperative manipulation and/or pin penetration on x-ray. These results were not dependent on the degree of the slip, which ranged from 7 degrees-94 degrees.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001858:Bone Nails; D002648:Child; D004839:Epiphyses, Slipped / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies