Four children having the main features of limp, pain in the hip, limitation of motion and external rotation of the affected limb going through MRI assessment, surgical exploration of the affected hip and the responses to various methods of treatment. It was found that the impingement of synovium in between the femoral head and the acetabulum was the chief pathology. The nomenclature, classification and clinical importance, pathogenesis and the differential diagnosis were diseussed. This specific group of patients were given under the nomenclature as specific type of transient synovitis of hip in children-intraaticular synovial impingement type.
Citation： Peng Mingxing,Zhou Shuhua,Fu Zhiping.. TRANSIENT SYNOVITIS OF HIP IN CHILDREN. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 1993, 7(3): 139-140. doi: Copy