Table 1.

Literature search on the incidence slipped capital femoral epiphysis

First author	Year of publication	Location of study	Incidence SCFE:100.000	Age of children enrolled in study (years)	Years of incidence noted	Male:female ratio
Henrikson [5]	1969	Gothenburg, Sweden	2.0–13.0	7–16	1947–1966	1.9
Kelsey [7]	1970	Connecticut	3.4	<25	1960–1967	2.7
			10.1	8–17
		New Mexico	0.7	<25	1960–1967	1.7
			2.1	8–17
Hagglund [4]	1984	Southern Sweden	61.0 (M), 30.0 (F)	5–23	1910–1982	2.3
Jerre [6]	1996	Gothenburg, Sweden	79.0	7–17	1946–1992	1.8
Loder [15]	1996	International multicenter study				1.4
Noguchi [10]	2002	Japan	2.2 (M), 0.8 (F)	10–14	1997–1999	3.1
Lehmann [1]	2006	USA	10.8	9–16	1997 and 2000	1.7
Benson [2]	2008	New Mexico	6.0	8–17	1995–2006	1.9
Lim [9]	2008	Singapore	1.2	5–14	1994–2006	4.1
Murray [14]	2008	Scotland	9.7	6–18	1981–2000	1.7
Song [11]	2009	Korea	0.3	10–14	1989–2003	3.1
Larson [8]	2010	Midwestern American (Olmsted) county	8.8	9–16	1965–2005	1.8
Nguyen [3]	2011	South Australia	2.8–8.2	10–19	1988–2007	1.7
Witbreuk (current study)	2012	Netherlands	11.6	5–19	1998–2010	1.1

SCFE slipped capital femoral epiphysis, M male, F female