Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

Poster
Topic: General Orthopaedics
Abstract number: 23569
TREATMENT OF HIP DEFORMITY AND PELVIC OBLIQUITY WITH EXTERNAL
FIXATION
Ghassan SALAMEH 1 , Michael SCHMIDT 2
1 Head of Center for lengthening and reconstruction, Damascus (SYRIA), 2 Waldhof
Praxis Kronberg, Frankfurt (GERMANY)
Treatment of pelvic obliquity often depends of hip deformity and consider a special
method for correction, hip and knee axis need a special correlation of alignment for
this reason a special hinges are modified for treatment of either isolated hip, knee
deformities or combined, a special hinges modified for treatment both of hip and knee
deformities, the used hinges are modified system of Salamehfix4, [SLDF4] .From
2002 to 2008, 85cases where treated with various hip and knee deformities. Cases
which treated are congenital or acquired femur deformities, neglected hip
dislocations or subluxations or post traumatic and post paralytic hip mal alignment
and the main principal procedure done it's the pelvic support osteotomy according to
Ilizarov principal in treatment of Neglected dislocations in order to restore femur
length and hip and knee alignment. Other cases where treated are some of hip and
knee post traumatic or congenital or even some cases of Osteoarthritis.
Complications where mostly superficial pin infection which treated locally.
Conclusions: Correction of hip deformity is very essential for treatment of pelvic
obliquity and the used system is differs by simplicity, small size in correlation to its
functional hinges and stability of fixation and gives good results.
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