Abstract
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, while visiting a well-known hospital in a large city, I saw on the operating schedule: Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis. When I inquired of my host regarding the type of operation used in this hospital for this condition, to my surprise he replied: Doctor, there are 17 orthopedic surgeons in this city and they use 17 different types of operation. This indicated to me that no orthopedic surgeon there had been able to develop an acceptable procedure for treating this condition which was convincingly better than any other so that it could be generally accepted as the method of treatment. I felt sorry for any patient in that hospital with this lesion because it seemed to me that his treatment was a matter of chance. Surely all of us know of this potentially crippling condition of childhood, the etiology of which appears to be related largely to growth.
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