A surgical approach to the treatment of destructive pathological dislocation of the hip in children has been substantiated, depending on age, the severity of destruction of the proximal femur and acetabulum. Reconstructive - restorative operations in most patients ensure the stability of the hip joint and thereby improve the patient's gait and statics, reduce the pelvic misalignment and eliminate the Trendelenburg symptom. The experience of surgical treatment of patients with pathological hip dislocations has shown that the most favorable outcomes are achieved with the use of open reduction of the stump of the head or neck of the femur with intertrochanteric detorsion shortening and varizing osteotomy with rotational pelvic osteotomy according to Salter and acetabular plasty according to Pemberton.
It is generally known that children tend to get injured more easily than adults. Moreover, these injuries they get in growing period may leave for long in the forms of disability. This paper is about reconstructive and restorative interventions at the proximal end of the thigh and pelvic bones in destructive pathological dislocation of the hip in children after hematogenous osteomyelitis. After hematogenous osteomyelitis of the proximal end of the femur, destruction of the head and neck of the femur is often observed, up to their destruction. The optimal age for surgical treatment of pathological dislocation of the hip, according to our data, is 4-5 years of age of the child, because by this time the process of ossification of the structures of the hip joint ends in most patients, and early surgical intervention often causes severe secondary deformities, up to their destruction.
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