Surgery in congenital hips dislocation

ABSTRACT

The authors report 34 cases of congenital dislocation of the hip treated by Chiari osteotomy. The average age was 9 years and the sex ratio was 1/84%. The authors used for the clinical evaluation Salter and Mackay classification, and for the radiographic evaluation Severin classification. There was 6 cases of re-dislocation due to a technical mistake. The secondary treatment of these 6 cases of dislocation leaded to a definitively result more than 90% of good evolution