Cemalettin Aksoy, Caglar Yilgor, Gokhan Demirkiran, Omur Caglar
The Dega acetabuloplasty is considered to be safe and effective in the treatment of hip pathologies, but the number of clinical follow-up series in the literature is not sufficient. The aim of our study was to identify the alterations in acetabular development in 35 patients (43 hips) with developmental dysplasia of the hip who were treated with Dega acetabuloplasty. This study is a retrospective review of 7 years of one surgeon's experience with Dega acetabuloplasty performed between May 2002 and January 2010...
March 2013: Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. Part B