Abstract
Background
What makes treatment choice for developmental dysplasia of the hips diagnosed after walking age difficult is the poor understanding of prereduction conditions that obstruct the reduction in spatial terms. To evaluate these problems, we employed subtraction three-dimensional imaging to search for the factors involved in intraarticular obstruction. On the basis of the findings of preoperative subtraction threedimensional imaging from computed tomography, we developed a new method, a minimum invasive arthroscopic reduction with limboplasty, for reduction of developmental dysplasia of the hips after walking age. The purposes of this report were to: (1) describe the technique of the arthroscopic procedure, and (2) evaluate our new method using radiographic parameters.
Methods
Ten patients with ten hips with developmental dysplasia after walking age treated by arthroscopic reduction with limboplasty were included in this study. The mean age of the patients at reduction was 22.6 months (range, 18.6–29.7 months); mean age at follow up was 7.2 years (range, 3.9–10.9 years); and mean follow up was 5.4 years (range, 1.7–9.0 years). These ten hips were evaluated using radiographic measurements.
Results
Moderate or severe avascular necrosis of the femoral head was not observed. Two hips that had a spherical-shaped head with minimal residual height loss or coxa magna were classified as Kalamchi and MacEwen grade 1. Additional surgery had been performed for two hips classified as Severin group 4 during the course of follow up. These two hips were classified as Severin group 1 at final examination. One more hip was classified as Severin group 4 at final examination, and additional surgery was recommended. The remaining seven hips (70%) therefore obtained good evaluations by arthroscopic reduction with limboplasty alone.
Conclusions
We developed a new reduction method by using an arthroscopic procedure for the reduction of developmental dysplasia of the hips after walking age when this dysplasia failed to be reduced with nonoperative methods. The result of our new method is acceptable because good evaluations were obtained in 70% of hips 5.4 years after reduction by our new method alone.
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Kitano, T., Imai, Y., Morita, M. et al. New treatment method for developmental dysplasia of the hips after walking age: arthroscopic reduction with limboplasty based on the findings of preoperative imaging. J Orthop Sci 15, 443–451 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-010-1497-6
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