CORR Insights®: Delayed Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis After Treatment of Femoral Neck Fracture in Children

Finnegan, Maureen

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“…9 Finnegan et al in his review article tried to find etiological and pathogenic basis of this very rare occurrence but concluded that probably a multinational and multi-centric effort would be needed as the numbers reported so far were very small. 10 Barring the two cases reported by Lahoti et al 9 , only 8 cases have been reported in the English Treatment of femoral neck fracture literature, interestingly, most of these cases have been reported from Asia with the exception of that reported by Ogden et al 7 Is there a geographical and genetic variation? It needs to be further investigated.…”

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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis after treatment of femoral neck fracture

2019

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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) in children after treatment of femoral neck fracture is a very rare condition. This complication should be recognized promptly and treated urgently. The risk of development of this complication can be minimized by anatomical reduction of the fracture and stable internal fixation of the fracture. Five years old male child sustained right sided femur neck fracture and was treated with closed reduction and Hip spica cast application. The fracture healed with a varus deformity. After 7 months, he developed slip of femoral epiphysis with a coxa vara deformity of proximal femur, which was treated with in situ fixation with Cannulated screws. His subsequent course remained uneventful up to five months.Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) after treatment of femoral neck fracture in children is a rare complication that should be recognized and treated promptly. The onset of SCFE may show inadequate reduction or fixation of the fracture. Anatomic reduction and stable internal ﬁxation for femoral neck fracture in children provides best outcomes. Postoperative care and delayed weight bearing are also equally important to avoid complications. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1725 How to cite this:Chinoy MA, Pal S, Khan MA. Slipped capital femoral epiphysis after treatment of femoral neck fracture. Pak J Med Sci. Special Supplement ICON 2020. 2020;36(1):S94-S97. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1725 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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