title: Modified Salter's innominate osteotomy.
abstract: Twenty paediatric patients with congenital dislocation of the hip were treated with a modification of the classic technique of Salter's osteotomy. Along with open reduction and femoral shortening osteotomy, the resected femoral segment, which measured 10-40 mm in width (mean 16 mm), was used to stabilize the Salter's osteotomy. The patients were aged between 2 and 9 years (mean 3.8 years). After a mean follow-up of 16 months (range 6-60 months) all patients had full bone healing and complete incorporation of femoral bone graft with the acetabulum. No patient had re-dislocation, subluxation or displacement of the graft.
authors.affiliation: Division of Orthopaedics, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zerrog
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: al-Zahrani
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ali
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation; D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016268:Internal Fixators; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography