This book provides an evidence-based approach to treating the increasing number of children and adolescents presenting with hip disorders. It integrates the most up-to-date data with essential knowledge, gleaned from decades of previous research and practice. Each chapter provides a comprehensive text which integrates relevant pathophysiology, clinical assessment, and imaging, with an evidence-based approach to non-operative and operative management, authored by globally recognized experts in the field of pediatric hip surgery. Detailed surgical techniques, illustrated with original medical drawings and accompanied by their respective indications, anticipated outcomes, and potential complications, are also featured, in this first orthopedic text dedicated solely to the pediatric and adolescent hip.The Paediatric and Adolescent Hip: Essentials and Evidence will be an indispensable resource for wide spectrum of audience including paediatric orthopaedic surgeons, general practitioners, general orthopaedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, orthopaedic residents, emergency department doctors, and physiotherapists seeking a clear and consistent evidence-based guide to treating the paediatric hip.

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1. The History of Paediatric Hip Surgery: The Past 100 Years.- 2.Anatomy and Physiology of the Pediatric Hip.- 3. Biomechanics of the hip during gait.- Part 1 Developmental Dysplasia of the hip (DDH).- 4. Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Young Children.- 5. Acetabular Dysplasia in the Reduced or Subluxated Hip.- Part 2 Osteochondroses and and impingement.- 6. Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease.- 7. Coxa Vara .- 8. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis.- 9. Femoroacetabular Impingement.- Part 3 Infectious conditions.- 10 Musculoskeletal Infection of the Hip.- 11. Tuberculosis Involving the Hip.- Part 4 Inflammatory conditions.- 12. Transient synovitis.- 13. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and the hip.- 14. Idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip.- Part 5 Traumatic conditions.- 15. Pediatric Proximal Femoral Fractures.- Pediatric pelvic injuries.- 16. Traumatic Hip Dislocation in Children.- Part 6 The Hip in Neuromuscular Conditions.- 18. The Hip In Cerebral Palsy.- 19. The Hip in Myelomeningocele.- 20. The Hip in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.- 21. The Hip in Muscular Dystrophy.- 22. The Hip in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.- 23. The Hip In Poliomyelitis.- 24. The Hip in Rett Syndrome.- Part 7 The hip in syndromes and skeletal dysplasia.- 25. Hip Problems in Children with Trisomy 21.- 26. Larsen syndrome and the hip.- 27. The Hip in Mucopolysaccharidoses.- 28. The Hip in Arthrogryposis.- 29. The Hip in Osteogenesis Imperfecta.- Part 8 Common benign tumours or tumour like conditions located at the hip.- 30. Osteoid Osteoma Involving the Hip.- 31. Osteochondroma Involving the Hip.- 32. The Hip in Fibrous dysplasia .- 33. Bone Cysts Involving The Hip.- Part 9 Miscellaneous conditions.- 34. Bladder and Cloacal Exstrophy.- 35. Athletic Injuries Involving the Hip.- 36. Snapping Hip Syndrome.- 37. The hip in congenital femoral deficiency.- 38. Total Hip Arthroplasty for Pediatric Disorders.