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Salter: a surgical cutting of the innominate bone in the treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip DDH . This operation is performed in patients with persistent subluxation and mild to moderate acetabular dysplasia. The acetabulum is reorientated without changing its size or shape.
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Salter: a system by which growth plate injury may be classified according to radiographic appearance : Type I: Pure epiphyseal separation, with the fracture isolated to the growth plate itself ; Type II: Growth plate is slit for a variable distance by a shearing or avulsion force before the fracture enters the metaphyseal bone and separates a small fragment of the bone ; Type III: Fracture line extends vertically through the epiphysis and growth plate to the hypertrophic zone and then horizontally across the growth plate itself, usually on one side or the other ;Type IV: Fracture that extends across the epiphysis, the growth plate and the metaphysis producing a fragment that consists of a portion of both the epiphysis and the metaphysis ; Type V: Injury to the vascular supply in the germinal cells of the plate occurs without any immediate radiographic signs.
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