Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

ABSTRACT

Thirty-six patients representing forty-seven hips with slipped upper femoral epiphysis have been reviewed at the University Hospital of the West Indies. The incidence of avascular necrosis was very low with only two out of forty-seven hips having this complication. Chondrolysis occurred in eighteen of the patients for a very high 38 percent incidence. These findings suggest that the result of slipped capital femoral epiphysis in a predominantly Negro population are poor and that chondrolysis is the main reason for unsatisfactory results (AU)