HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES ALUMNI MEETING

In the summary of the paper by Dr. H. Relton McCarroll, Congenital Dislocation of the Hip, presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Alumni of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, two errors appeared. This summary was published in Proceedings of the April 1955 issue of The Journal.

On page 418, paragraph 5, line 5, the sentence beginning: "In patients with frank dislocation . . ." would express more accurately Dr. McCarroll's meaning if it were changed to read: "In patients with frank dislocation, whose femora cannot be lifted into position without force and without trauma . . ."

In the same paragraph, line 9, the sentence: "The hips are maintained in the frog-leg position . . ." would express Dr. McCarroll's meaning more accurately if changed to read: "The hips of patients on whom preliminary skeletal traction is used are maintained in a position of abduction and internal rotation. The frog-leg position is used only in those children in early infancy whose normal resting position is one of flexion at the hip joint."

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