A rare case of open anterior hip dislocation

Akhil A Tawari; Vishal D Bahuva; Arvind B Goregaonkar; Subaraman R

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjs035

A rare case of open anterior hip dislocation

J Surg Case Rep. 2013 Jan 10;2013(1):rjs035. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjs035.

Authors

Akhil A Tawari¹, Vishal D Bahuva², Arvind B Goregaonkar², Subaraman R²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedics, LTMMC&LTMGH (Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital), Sion, Mumbai, India drtawari@gmail.com.
² Department of Orthopaedics, LTMMC&LTMGH (Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital), Sion, Mumbai, India.

Abstract

Anterior hip dislocation is much less frequent when compared with posterior dislocation of the hip joint, with open dislocation being still rarer. We report a case of an open anterior hip dislocation in a 23-year-old male who presented to us in the emergency department, and also present a review of the literature.

Publication types

Case Reports