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THE TREATMENT OF UNREDUCED CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE HIP IN ADULTS



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Abstract

1. The results of fifty-three operations in forty adults with a persistent congenital dislocation of the hip have been reviewed.

2. Arthrodesis as a primary operation was successful in five of six patients, giving a pain-free hip and good function. After an arthroplasty or an osteotomy that had failed to relieve symptoms it was successful in only one patient.

3. Cup arthroplasty on one hip relieved pain in five of nine patients, giving an increase in functional activity, although the range of hip movement was often disappointing. Bilateral cup arthroplasty, performed in four patients, gave partial relief in three, but did not permit an increase in activity.

4. High osteotomy of the femur was undertaken in eleven patients with a unilateral dislocation; pain was rarely relieved, and a stiff hip resulted in seven.

5. Low osteotomy in nine patients gave some relief from pain with a good range of hip movement.

6. In unilateral dislocation arthrodesis appeared to be the operation of choice, although cup arthroplasty was capable of giving a good functional result.

7. In bilateral dislocation, when only one hip was painful, the results of both these operations were on the whole good. When both hips were painful the operations that had been performed seldom gave clinical improvement.

8. High osteotomy of the femur appeared to have little place in the treatment of the painful dislocated hip. Low osteotomy, either of the Schanz or Batchelor type, appeared to be of value mainly as a salvage procedure when other measures had failed to give relief.

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