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Compression Fixation after Biplane Intertrochanteric Osteotomy for Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis A TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT
WAYNE O. SOUTHWICK
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From the Section of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
1973 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.  1973; 55:1218-1224 
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Abstract

A modification in the technique of biplane intertrochanteric osteotomy for slipped capital femoral epiphysis, used in twenty-four patients, allows supplementation of the corrective osteotomy by compression fixation. Healing is faster, and no losses in position have occurred with the new fixation apparatus. Eight of the twenty-four hips showed some degree of joint-space narrowing; no evidence of avascular necrosis has been observed.

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