Pinning in slipped capital femoral epiphysis: long-term follow-up study.

This long-term follow-up study was aimed at evaluating patients with hip epiphysiolysis treated by pinning and previously controlled by short-term follow-up, in order to evaluate both clinical and radiographic evolution. The case series included 36 patients (17 female and 19 male) for overall 48 hips (21 right, 27 left). The epiphysiolysis was bilateral in 12 patients.

Paediatric hip--ultrasound screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip: a review.

This paper will try to deal with the following questions: Which is the correct screening model for the developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)? What is the clinical significance of "sonographic" DDH? Can overtreatment produced by ultrasound (US) screening cause a waste of resources and eventually morbidity? We reviewed the literature since January, 1996 through December, 2000. To compare our experience with the literature, we analysed the results of the US examinations of the hip performed in our Institute. Over 4 years of US screening 11326 infants (22652 hips), aged 3 days to 4 months, were examined consecutively.