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Pediatric orthopedic hip problems and causes of hip pain including Perthes, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, developmental hip dysplasia, SCFE, DDH

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Paediatric Hip Disorders Abstracts (0)
Abstracts on pediatric hip disorders from proceedings of orthopaedic meetings & societies

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Case 11. Ischemic Necrosis in DDH.

Location: http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/res695/homepage/pd_ortho/educate/clincase/ischnecr.htm

ISCHEMIC NECROSIS AS A COMPLICATION IN DELVELOPMENTAL DYSPLASIA
This is an 11 months old white male patient who had congenital dislocation of right hip. This was first detected 6 weeks of age. The patient was a breech child delivered by C-section. He is the first child for this 38 year old...
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Case 19. Sugioka Osteotomy

Location: http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/res695/homepage/pd_ortho/educate/clincase/sugi.htm

SUGIOKA OSTEOTOMY
K.B.. 12-year-old boy. B.W. 63 kg(139 Ib.) . Perthes disease. He had right hip pain and limping for seven weeks. When he was first seen at University Hospital of Niigata, the right femoral head was deformed already and collapsed slightly on X-ray. The lateral part of the femoral head...
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Case 3 Developmental Coxa Vara.

Location: http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/res695/homepage/pd_ortho/educate/clincase/coxavara.htm

DEVELOPMENTAL COXA VARA
* also known as cervical or infantile coxa vara * represents coxa vara not present at birth but rather developing in early childhood * coxa vara is defined as any decrease in the femoral neck-shaft angle less than...
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Coxa Vara

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/coxa_vara_and_acquired_coxa_vara

- decreased neck shaft angle from defect in ossification of femoral neck;
- it is bilateral in 1/3 to 1/2 of cases;
- it can be congenital (noted at birth & differenitated from CDH by MRI), ...
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Developmental Dislocation of the Hip Wheeless

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/developmental_dislocation_of_the_hip

DDH involves displacement of the femoral head from the acetabulum (during the perinatal period) which disrupts the normal development of the hip joint;
- DDH is estimated to occur in 1 - 1.5 cases per 1000...
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Femoral Anteversion

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/femoral_anteversion_dup_of_6088

femoral version is defined as the angular difference between axis of femoral neck and the transcondylar axis of the knee;
- excessive femoral anteversion (medial femoral torsion) is most common cause of in-toeing that first presents...
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Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Wheeless

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/slipped_capital_femoral_epiphysis

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
- slip of the captial femoral epiphysis occurs with in a narrow window of physiologic maturity of the growing child; - arises from mechanical and constitutional factors; - pts may have underlying endocrine dz (such as hypothyroidism) delayed...
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