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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Authors’ classification of neurogenic HO of the hip

From: A classification method for neurogenic heterotopic ossification of the hip

Type

Patients (n = 24)/hips (n = 33)

Description

Type 1

 a: Spinal cord injury

3/3

Neurogenic HO at the anterior hip or the proximal end of the femur, with or without ankylosis

 b: Brain injury

1/2

Type 2

 a: Spinal cord injury

2/2

Neurogenic HO at the posterior hip or the proximal end of the femur, with or without ankylosis

 b: Brain injury

2/2

Type 3

 a: Spinal cord injury

4/7

Neurogenic HO at the anterior and medial hip or the proximal end of the femur, with or without ankylosis

 b: Brain injury

8/11

Type 4

 a: Spinal cord injury

3/5

Neurogenic HO around the hip (circumferential), with or without ankylosis

 b: Brain injury

1/1