[Our experience in the conservative surgical treatment of coxarthrosis]

The authors present the substantiation of the use of conservative treatment in a series of 163 patients with coxarthrosis operated upon between 1983 and 1990. In 135 of these patients various types of osteotomies were performed: Pauwels valgisation or varus femoral osteotomy (42 cases), McMurray displacement osteotomy (41 cases), varus and displacement osteotomy (19 cases) and Chiari pelvic osteotomy (33 cases). In the remainder of 28 patients tenotomies and hip denervations were performed. The postoperative results, estimated by a strict clinico-radiological survey revealed a marked clinical improvement and radiographically a restoration of joint congruence in about 80% of the cases.