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Pelvic osteotomy. An operation for reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip. This is probably the same as Main entry as Ludloff’s operation, which is entred under Karl Ludloff.


Bibliography

K. Chiari:
Ergebnisse mit det Beckenosteotomie als Pfannendachplastic.
Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und ihre Grenzgebiete, Stuttgart, 1955, 87: 14-26.

K. Chiari:
Medial displacement osteotomy of the pelvis.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Philadelphia, 1974, 98: 55-71.

M. F. Macnicol, H. K. Lo, K. F. Yong:
Pelvic remodelling after the Chiari osteotomy. A long-term review.
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume, London, 2004, 86-B: 648-654.

K. Chiari:
[Pelvic osteotomy in hip arthroplasty] [in German]
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1953, 103: 707-709.

K. Chiari:
[Results of pelvic osteotomy as of the shelf method acetabular roof plastic] [in German]
Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und ihre Grenzgebiete, Stuttgart, 1955, 87: 14-26.

K. Chiari
[Operative treatment of the hip joint in congenital hip joint dislocation] [in German]
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, December 154, 1957, 107: 1020-1022.

K. Chiari.
[Pelvic osteotomy in plastic surgery of the acetabular roof] [in German]
Langenbecks Archiv für klinische Chirurgie vereinigt mit Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, Berlin 1959, 292: 856-857.

K. Chiari:
[Operative therapy of coxarthrosis] [in German]
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, April 24, 1964, 76: 299-300. 

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