title: Ultrasound profile of hips of South Indian infants.
abstract: One thousand consecutive infants, 437 girls and 563 boys, attending their first DPT vaccination at a mean age of 48 days underwent ultrasonological screening of the hips by Graf's technique at the immunization clinic of a tertiary hospital in South India. Graf I (mature) hips were seen bilaterally in 925 children. The incidence of Graf type II hips was 74/1000 infants. The incidence of sonographically abnormal hips (II, III and IV) in this population was 7.5%. The hip dislocation rate was 1 in 1000 (0.1%).
authors.affiliation: Unit of Pediatric Orthopedics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
authors.forename: Chirag
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bhalvani
authors.forename: Vrisha
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Madhuri
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006615:Hip / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods