Seven patients (12 hips) were treated for slipped capital femoral epiphysis. The average follow up was 3 years and 6 months. The average age was 12.6 years. 5 hips with moderate slip were treated by trochanteric osteotomy (Southwick's procedure). 6 hips with mild slip were treated by in situ pinning, and 1 hip with mild slip underwent hormone therapy for pan-hypopituitarism without surgery.
All of the patients were evaluated clinically and radilogically, and satisfactory results were achieved without complications such as avascular necrosis, chondrolysis, or osteoarthrosis.
