Treat, follow-up, or discharge? An aid in sonographic decisions for the borderline centered neonatal/infantile hips

Abstract

To investigate whether linear measurements or ratios on the Graf’s “standard plane” ultrasound images of the neonatal/infantile hip, can support the clinically important differentiation between type I and type II hips.

Keywords

• measurements
• ultrasonography
• developmental dysplasia of the hip
• ratios
• infantile hip