Author/Authors :
Hallaj Moghadam, Mohammad Orthopedic Research Center - Department of Orthopedic Surgery - Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran , Parsa, Ali Rothman Orthopedic Institute at Thomas Jefferson university Hospital, Philadelphia, USA , Hassani, Mohammad Orthopedic Research Center - Department of Orthopedic Surgery - Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran , Mirzaie, Maryam Department of Community and Preventive Medicine - Mashhad University of Medical Sciences - Mashhad, Iran , Habibzadeh Shojaei, Reza Orthopedic Research Center - Department of Orthopedic Surgery - Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract :
vor disease or dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica (DEH) is an extremely rare condition with incidence of about 1:1,000,000. Male to female ratio of reporting case is 3:1, and usually diagnosed between two and eight years old. It usually affects the medial portion of the joint, but lateral involvement is not uncommon. Hip-joint was affected in less than 4% of existing cases in the literature. It would be very important to precisely mange the hip involvement to prevent from further articular cartilage destruction in this very young age. We report an infant boy with isolated DEH of hip. We found a total of 271 cases of DEH that reported between 1926 and 2017.The most sites of involvement are ankle joint and around the knee. Our search reaches out to ten cases of hip involvement. Hip involvement needs a patient specified decision. We observed our patient for three years with a desirable hip joint function.
