Abstract
Department of Orthopedic Sasebo Municipal Hospital In orthopedic department of Sasebo municipal hospital, we had 101 cases of congenital torticollis during 84 months from April 1962 to March 1969.
There were 85 cases available from our questionnaire or result obtained from direct examination.
According to our study, we found that the cases of 59 boys and 42 girls, there were 56 cases of right torticollis and 45 cases of left region.
There were 35 cases of normal delivery, 5 cases of caesarean operation and 10 cases of other obstetrical operations.
Concerning complication, out of 10 cases, there were 6 cases of congenital dislocation of hip joints, pes valgus, cerebral palsy and ventriculal septal defect. 11 familiar cases were shown on our study.
The most interesting cases were mirror-imaged identical twins ans brothers.
We report these cases that are seldom found in the literature.
