Pelvic displacement osteotomy for chronic hip dislocation in myelodysplasia

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Canale-ST; Hammond-NL 3d; Cotler-JM; Snedden-HE J-Bone-Joint-Surg-Am. 1975 Mar; 57(2): 177-83 Twelve children with lumbar-level myelodysplasia (average age, eight and three-quarter years) underwent twenty-one pelvic displacement osteotomies for subluxated or dislocated hips. Nineteen of the twenty-one hips remained reduced on three-year follow-up. Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted. Active function about the hips was not improved, nor was there a decrease in the amount of bracing needed following the osteotomy. Pelvic displacement osteotomy can be utilized in selected cases as part of the over-all management of chronic hip dislocation in myelodysplasia.