title: Triple innominate osteotomy for hip stabilisation and transiliac leg lengthening after poliomyelitis.
abstract: We reviewed our experience with a modified triple innominate osteotomy for hip instability and limb shortening due to poliomyelitis in 62 adolescent and adult patients, treated from 1973 to 1990. Their ages at surgery ranged from 12 years to 35 years (average 22.3). At a mean follow-up of 4 years (2 to 18) 59 of the patients (95.2%) had substantial improvement in hip stability, and all but one had radiological improvement as determined by the acetabular angle, centre-edge angle and acetabulum-head quotient. In 59 cases in which transiliac limb lengthening was attempted, the mean gain was 1.7 cm (0.6 to 3.0). When the abductor muscles had been partially paralysed, the operation produced an appreciable increase in power in 12 of the 39 hips examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea.
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: I H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Steel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001852:Bone Lengthening / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006621:Hip Joint; D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007870:Leg Length Inequality / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D012720:Severity of Illness Index