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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Pooled summary of studies of stable slip treatments

From: Treatment of stable slipped capital femoral epiphysis: systematic review and exploratory patient level analysis

Intervention

Hips

AVN (%)

CL (%)

FAI (%)

OA (%)

Satisfactory patients resulta

Hip spica

101

9.5

20.5

NR

53

NR

Epiphysiodesis

464

3

1.3

NR

23.3

67 (67%) excellent

6 (6%) good

10 (10%) fair

7 (7%) poor

7 (7%) failure

Pinning using single screw

714

1.4

2.1

29.8

3.1

116 (47%) excellent

86 (36%) good

19 (8%) fair

10 (4%) poor

11 (5%) failure

Pinning using multiple pins

273

2.2

4

NR

15

76 (67%) excellent

19 (17%) good

0 (0%) fair

16 (14%) poor

3 (3%) failure

Physeal osteotomy

615

11.1

9.8

1.5

12.2

131 (28%) excellent

210 (45%) good

46 (10%) fair

72 (16%) poor

3 (6%) failure

Ganz surgical dislocation

95

3.1

2.1

6

0

52 (87%) excellent

2 (3%) good

0 (0%) fair

5 (8%) poor

1 (2%) failure

  1. Percentage based on the number of patients in the studies that reported on the relevant outcomes and not the pooled total
  2. AVN femoral head osteonecrosis, CL chondrolysis, FAI femora-acetabular impingement, OA osteoarthritis
  3. aSatisfactory patients result based on closely related ratings such as Heyman and Herndon classification, Harris hip score or Iowa hip scores, NR not reported