J Korean Orthop Assoc.  1983 Jun;18(3):501-506. 10.4055/jkoa.1983.18.3.501.

The Treatment of Bilateral Congenital Dislocation of the Hip

• Kim JD
• Kim YC
• Choi JS
• Lee YG
• Cho HO

• KMID: 2446486
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.1983.18.3.501

Abstract

There are few reports in the literature on how to care and manage bi!ateral congenital dislocation of the hip. Six patients have been encountered at this hospital from June 1979, of them four children had operative treat ment and the other two conservative. As a result of our experience about the management of bilateral congenital dislocation of the hip. The authors obtained the following conceptions; 1. The patient with bilateral dislocation was rather delayed in diagnosis. Therefore, in comp the treatment of bilateral cases was poorer than that of unilateral case. 2. In the case of the dislocated hip that might be easily reduced and maintained in the stab servative care was usually recommeded even in the older child. Unstable, unreduced hip,; hip in old children, the more definitive operation and internal & external rigid immobilization mandatory to get good result. 3. It might be beneficial to operate the more deformed and resistive hip first, and then to p with the same procedure 2 weeks after the first operation.

Keyword

Congenital dislocation of the hip; Bilateral

MeSH Terms

Child
Diagnosis
Dislocations*
Fertilization
Hip*
Humans
Immobilization