[Development of hip preservation in treating adult hip dysplasia].

During the past decades, the field of hip preservation in China has achieved great improvements. Theoretically, the blood supply of the femoral head and the acetabulum along with the mechanism of early-stage hip osteoarthritis has been gradually cleared. The knowledge and application of the periacetabular osteotomy, surgical hip dislocation, and hip arthroscopy has been vigorously promoted. Improved understanding of the mechanism, pathology, and prevention protocols of the secondary hip dysplasia have been obtained, despite the fact that lack of awareness of some mechanism and detail, for example, hip instability or borderline dysplasia, etc . On the basis of summing up those clinical progress, this article further elaborated the historical development of hip preservation through the review of several traditional treatment, and made objective assessment about the follow-up, evaluation, minimally invasive surgery, and individualized treatment newly reported.