title: Ultrasound for screening developmental dysplasia of the hip: a European perspective.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  For the past 20 years, sonography of the hip has become the imaging procedure of choice to diagnose hip maturation disorders in German-speaking countries. In Austria, hip sonography is a mandatory and essential feature of preventive public health measures; the "Mutter-Kind-Pass" has been the official medical identity card for mother and child since 1992 in Austria. This review summarizes the most recent literature dealing with ultrasound screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Europe.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This article focuses on the results in recent articles about sonography screening of the hip joint in the first year of life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The continued development and refinement of the method, which is now standardized in German-speaking countries and hence can be taught in uniformly structured courses, has made sonography of the infant hip a gold standard for screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in these countries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Dorn
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neumann
mesh_terms: D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014463:Ultrasonography