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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis with hypothyroidism treated by nonoperative method
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|September 1, 1980
Abstract:
Patients receiving growth hormone or thyroid hormone are likely to develop a slipped capital femoral epiphysis during the period of spurt in growth. While pin fixation of these hips has been the popular method of treatment, it is possible to treat Grade I slips successfully by nonoperative methods provided that protection from weight-bearing is maintained until fusion of the epiphysis is complete.