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The History of Pediatric Hip Surgery: The Past 100 Years

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Children’s hip diseases were not well understood until the advent of X-ray in 1895. Thus childhood surgery prior to that time was limited to draining of infections, closed reductions (a few open) of dislocated hips and other limited procedures. X-ray availability, antibiotics, and stainless steel implants revolutionized thinking about childhood hip surgery. This chapter focuses on the key advances made over the last 100 years in the surgical treatment of congenital (developmental) dislocation of the hip, Perthes disease, and slipped capital femoral epiphysis.

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  1. Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Dennis R. Wenger

  2. Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Dennis R. Wenger

  3. Department of Orthopedics, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    James D. Bomar

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  1. Clinical Director of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Manchester Children Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

    Sattar Alshryda

  2. Weill Cornell Medicine, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    Jason J. Howard

  3. Senior Attending Physician in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    James S. Huntley

  4. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Jeffrey Mast Chair of Orthopaedic Hip and Trauma Surgery, Nashville, TN, USA

    Jonathan G. Schoenecker

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Wenger, D.R., Bomar, J.D. (2019). The History of Pediatric Hip Surgery: The Past 100 Years. In: Alshryda, S., Howard, J., Huntley, J., Schoenecker, J. (eds) The Pediatric and Adolescent Hip. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12003-0_1

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