Stylianos Kolovos, Spyridon Sioutis, Maria-Eleni Papakonstantinou, Dimitrios Serenidis, Pavlos Altsitzioglou, Vasileios Karampikas, Konstantinos Chlapoutakis, Evanthia Mitsiokapa, Spyridon Katsanos, Dimitrios Mastrokalos, Dimitrios Koulalis, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos, Andreas F Mavrogenis
Until the 1980s, the diagnosis of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) was based on clinical examination and radiographic imaging. In 1980, Reinhard Graf developed his own ultrasonographic method for the examination of the infant hip joint. Graf's method evaluates the osseous and cartilaginous coverage of the femoral head by the acetabulum in the infantile hip joint by measuring the angles α and β. The validity of Graf method is that with these measurements the hip joint is further classified by Graf classification into types I to IV that guide treatment...
October 26, 2023: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology: Orthopédie Traumatologie