Skvortsov A.
Doctor of Medical Sciences
Chief Researcher
State Autonomous Healthcare Institution “Republican Clinical
Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan”
Khabibyanov R.
Doctor of Medical Sciences
Chief Researcher
State Autonomous Healthcare Institution “Republican Clinical
Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan”
Gilmutdinov M.
Candidate of Medical Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of
Higher Education “Kazan State Medical University”
of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Maleev M.
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Leading Researcher
State Autonomous Institution of Health “Republican Clinical
Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan”

Abstract
Functional insufficiency of the abductor muscles of the thigh in pathology of the hip joint is manifested by the Duchenne-Trendelenburg symptom (inability to keep the pelvis from lateral tipping during a single-support period of standing). Insufficiency of the abductor muscles of the hip, which is the cause of impaired support ability and gait, occurs in various diseases of the hip joint, therefore its preoperative and postoperative determination is of great importance both in the correct choice of treatment for patients and in terms of prognosis of the adequacy of the applied treatment method. The authors proposed a method for x-ray myographic examination of muscles in patients with various diseases of the hip joint. Conducting an X-ray contrast study of the abductor muscles of the thigh allows us to obtain additional valuable information about the condition of these muscles, about changes in their shape, structure, points of attachment, degree of atrophy, which is necessary to know when planning surgical interventions in the area of ​​​​work of the muscles, and also allows for a timely course of drug treatment, electrical stimulation, physical therapy with dosed training of weakened and atrophic muscles.

Keywords: pathology of the hip joint, X-ray contrast study of the hip abductors