In new research presented by investigators from the Hospital For Special Surgery (New York, NY, USA) at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) held in San Francisco (CA, USA) on February 7-11, 35 five-to-seven-month-old children at high risk for DDH were screened with the conventional pelvis X-ray, as well as a bilateral nonstress-hip ultrasounds. Blinded orthopedic surgeons then assessed the radiographs and ultrasound scans for standard measure of hip dysplasia. Of the 35 children involved in the study, only one was diagnosed with dysplasia, and the diagnosis was made on both the ultrasound and X-ray.

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