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Hello. I posted a while back regarding a little girl that we are
adopting from CHina. She has been diagnosed with congenital
dislocation of the hip. The orphanage says they noticed a limp when she
first started walking at 24 months. (Aggravation from me since they
didn't notice sooner!...) I received her xrays last week. Her pelvis
shows no socket and the ball at the top of her femur is 1/2 the size
it should be. Does anyone know if they will need to create an
artificial socket? Or a bone graft? Does that mean she'll have
surgeries all her life?
Thank you so much for the help!
Brenda




Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:36 pm

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Hello. I posted a while back regarding a little girl that we are adopting from CHina. She has been diagnosed with congenital dislocation of the hip. The...
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Nov 23, 2007
8:36 pm

Hi Brenda It does sound like your daughter may need an osteotomy which is an operation whereby a socket is built with a bone graft. This op is "normally" the...
Rob & Sara Dudley
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Nov 23, 2007
10:52 pm

My daughter practically had no socket either. With my daughter Serenity they used the bone they got when they made her femur shorter, and bone grafted it onto...
Joy Bush
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Nov 23, 2007
10:55 pm

Hi Brenda We 'spoke' a while ago - our daughter Abigail had virtually no socket either, what the surgeon here did, was pin the top of her leg into what was...
Martin Tweedie
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Nov 24, 2007
12:37 pm

Brenda, Welcome to you. With the age of your soon to be daughter its most likely that the ped orthos would do something called an osteotomy. The ball of the...
Nancy Sanders
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Nov 29, 2007
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