Open reduction of the dislocated hip in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a case report.
An 8-year-old girl with systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) required surgical reduction for a dislocated left hip joint following failure of skin traction for 1 week. Unaided walking was achieved by 3 months postoperatively. Incongruence and irregularity of the hip joint remained but may resolve with maturation. Joint laxity caused by synovitis, flexion/adduction contracture with pain, and acetabular dysplasia by growth disturbance apparently caused hip dislocation.
Inui
Kentaro
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.
Maeno
Takafumi
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Tada
Masahiro
M
Takaoka
Kunio
K
Koike
Tatsuya
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