Quality of life and functional disability in skeletally mature patients with myelomeningocele-related spinal deformity.

The purpose of the study was to assess the quality of life, physical function, self-motivation, and self-perception of skeletally mature patients with spina bifida and scoliosis. This is a prospective study on 19 skeletally mature patients with a mean age of 21.4 years.

Hip joint development in children with type IIb developmental dysplasia.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyse the results of treatment of sonographically diagnosed type IIb developmental hip dysplasia and to identify residual hip dysplasia using clinical and radiological assessment.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data of 49 children (59 type IIb and 39 type I hips, according to Graf's monographic classification) treated in abduction braces. The mean age was 9.