The authors present in this paper a retrospective study of eighteen patients treated surgically for insufficiency of the acetabular coverage with the shelf procedure according to Lynn T. Staheli. This study was done at the Service of Pediatric Orthopedics of Hospital Independência - Complexo Hospitalar ULBRA/Porto Alegre-RS. They call attention to the modification of the surgical technique in that the bone graft taken from outer cortex of the iliac bone, is deepened in the slot in the superior rim of the acetabulum. The follow-up ranged from two months to four years. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the affected hip pre and postoperatively showing the results and the advantages of the modified shelf technique. They observed that if the surgery is performed according to the correct technique and by an experienced surgeon, it is a very good alternative to the treatment of those orthopedics diseases that lead to an insufficient coverage of the femur head.
acetabular augmentation; shelf; pelvic osteotomy
