RESUMO
Although the incidence of the skeletal tuberculosis is being decreased with improvement of the socioeconomic status, tuberculous arthritis of the hip in children has many problems in fact that there is a relatively high incidence comparing to that of adult, that it is difficult to early detection for its variable clinical feature, and that there are many controversies in its treatment. From Aug. 1981 to Apr, 1988, 14 cases treated at Busan Paik Hospital were analyzed, and the following conclusions were obtained. 1. Surgical treatment of tuberculous arthritis of the hip with early lesion was better than conservative treatment in that it could be made early diagnosis, removed the infected focus, lessened the recurrence rate, and preserved the hip function. 2. A relatively good result in preserving the hip function was obtained with surgical treatment in tuberculous arthritis of the hip with late lesion.