Familial infantile coxa vara.

Case 1-A man of thirty-six sought advice because he had wrenched his left hip while cycling. He had had previous trouble with his hips from the age of eighteen, but the attacks of pain were infrequent and settled rapidly. He worked as a brewery manager with little difficulty. Four years before he attended he had had a piece of bone removed from the right knee for osteochondritis. Figure 1 shows the radiographs of the hips. There was gross coxa vara, probably of the Fairbank or infantile type with superimposed osteoarthritic changes, more marked on the left side.