I reviewed the cases of eighty-two patients (106 hips) with slipped
capital femoral epiphysis who were treated during a twenty-four-year
period. Of these, forty-two hips had a sufficiently severe displacement to
require surgical correction by means of a cuneiform osteotomy of the neck
of the femur just distal to the physis. The purpose was to restore the
normal anatomical relationship of the proximal capital femoral epiphysis to
the neck of the femur. Follow-up of these patients ranged from two to
twenty-two years, with an average of nine years and nine months. Aseptic
necrosis developed in one femoral head and osteoarthritis developed in one
hip. The remaining forty hips were graded as having an excellent
result.