Retroversion of the acetabulum

Retroversion of the acetabulum. A cause of hip pain.

We describe a little-known variety of hip dysplasia, termed 'acetabular retroversion', in which the alignment of the mouth of the acetabulum does not face the normal anterolateral direction, but inclines more posterolaterally. The condition may be part of a complex dysplasia or a single entity. Other than its retroversion, the acetabulum is sited normally on the side wall of the pelvis, and its...

Retroversion of the contralateral adult acetabulum after previous Perthes' disease.

Retroversion of the adult acetabulum following a previous Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is found in 30-40% of the patients. It is known that in LCPD there may also be morphologic changes in the nonaffected controlateral acetabulum. We investigated the prevalence of retroversion of the contralateral acetabulum in a group of adult patients with a history of LCPD. We found this morphology in 1...

Focal concavity of posterior superior acetabulum and its relation with acetabular dysplasia and retroversion in adults without advanced hip osteoarthritis

BACKGROUND Although little is known, a limited number of three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) images of the pelvis present focal concavity of posterior superior acetabulum. The purpose of the present study was to investigate this morphologic deformity and its relation with dysplasia and retroversion in adults who were expected to have the original morphology of the acetabulum after growth...

Uterine Retroversion

Retroversion of Gravid Uterus

On the 20th of February last I was consulted by J. M., a married woman, 38 years of age. She had had seven living children (being delivered of twin girls on one occasion) and three miscarriages, and she calculated that she was about the middle of the fifth month of her tenth pregnancy. The catamenia last appeared in the beginning of October last year, and she first felt the movement of the chil...