Treatment of Tönnis type II hip dysplasia with or without open reduction in children older than 18 months: a preliminary report.
OBJECTIVE
In this study, we aim to investigate whether the hip with Tönnis type II dysplasia in children older than 18 months can be treated without open reduction.


METHODS
In our study, 47 hips (47 patients) with type II developmental dysplasia of the hip according to the Tönnis classification were treated by a combination of open reduction through an anterolateral approach with iliopsoas tenotomy followed by innominate osteotomy and capsulorrhaphy or iliopsoas tenotomy followed by innominate osteotomy. The patients with open reduction constitute the open Salter group (32 hips), while the rest of the patients with innominate osteotomy alone constitute the closed Salter group (15 hips). The acetabular index (AI) and Smith's c-b and h-b index were assessed on the preoperative, immediate postoperative and final follow-up hip X-rays.


RESULTS
There were no statistically significant differences related to sex distribution, age and postoperative follow-up time between the patients of each group. There was also no statistically significant difference between the preoperative AI of the open and closed Salter osteotomy groups. Overall, 80% of hips with open reduction had Smith's c-b ratio greater than the value of 1 and h-b ratio lower than the value of 0.05.


CONCLUSIONS
The preoperative c-b index of the open osteotomy group was statistically greater than the c-b index of the closed osteotomy group and the preoperative h-b index of the open Salter group was statistically smaller than the h-b index of the closed Salter group, which means that most of the hips in the open osteotomy group are more in a lateralised and superior position compared to the closed osteotomy group. To us, there exists a subgroup of hips with less lateralisation and superior displacement according to the Smith's c-b and h-b ratio in Tönnis type II hip dysplasia. These hips might be less amenable to capsulorrhaphy because of the lower capsular instability and treatment may be done with closed reduction after iliopsoas tenotomy with Salter osteotomy in this select group of patients.
Akman
Budak
B
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Goztepe Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, drbudakakman@hotmail.com.
Ozkan
Korhan
K
Cift
Hakan
H
Akan
Kaya
K
Eceviz
Engin
E
Eren
Abdullah
A