Examination of the infant hip with real-time ultrasonography.
Examination of the infant hip with a real-time sector scanner permits accurate and reliable determination of the anatomic structures and relationships of the hip joint. A technique using two transducer orientations has been found most effective. In 100 hip examinations, the method failed to differentiate an abnormal hip in only one instance.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014159:Transducers; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000295:instrumentation; D014463:Ultrasonography