The Hip – from Cradle to Grave

Abstract

From a dissertation read before the Society on Friday, 26th November, 1965

From birth to old age the hip joint provides a fascinating spectrum of disease processes; this provides a useful starting point for a study of the interaction of development of structure with development of function and the pathological variants of this interaction. Because of limitations of space only a few disease processes will be chosen and much of the review will be devoted to normal structure and function.