Erschienen in:
01.05.2009 | Case Report
Open perineal dislocation of hip in a child
verfasst von:
Dhananjaya Sabat, Daljeet Singh, Vinod Kumar, Ajay Gupta
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology
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Ausgabe 4/2009
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Excerpt
Traumatic dislocation of hip is an uncommon event in childhood and usually results from low-energy trauma in younger children and from high-energy trauma in older children [
1]. Most of the cases are posterior dislocations, which occur 5–10 times more frequently than anterior dislocations [
1]. Open dislocation is very rare and usually has a poor prognosis. We describe a case of open perineal type anterior dislocation in an 11-year-old child. …