The results of neonatal treatment of congenital hip dislocation: a personal series.
Of 103 neonates with congenital dislocation of the hip in a consecutive personal series, 100 were treated with a standard divaricator splintage regimen; of these, the result is known in 97. In three babies with irreducible dislocation no treatment was attempted. In 90 babies the hips became normal. In one hip dislocation persisted; in three osteochondritis with femoral growth plate damage developed without obvious cause; and in two hip dysplasia responded to surgical correction of femoral anteversion. In one baby attempted treatment of irreducible hips produced a poor result. The practice of treating all hips found to be unstable at orthopaedic examination but not those previously suspected but later unconfirmed is defended.
D002370:Casts, Surgical; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D013165:Splints; D013997:Time Factors