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Post Traumatic Anterior Dislocation of Hip in a Five Year Old Child


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1 Department of Orthopaedics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
     

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Dislocation of the Hip in infants, toddlers and adolescents can occur either as an isolated congenital abnormality or associated with a spectrum of other birth defects. Post-traumatic dislocations of the hip in children are very uncommon, and anterior dislocation of the hip joint is even rarer. We report such a case following road traffic accident in a five-year-old child. The patient underwent successful emergent closed reduction of right hip under general anaesthesia. The clinical course and follow-up assessment of the patient were otherwise uneventful. At one year follow-up, there was no evidence of growth abnormalities in the head, no secondary arthritis and no signs of avascular necrosis.

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Hip, Anterior Dislocation, Child.
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Authors

S. Mahapatra
Department of Orthopaedics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
R. Nandakumar
Department of Orthopaedics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India

Abstract


Dislocation of the Hip in infants, toddlers and adolescents can occur either as an isolated congenital abnormality or associated with a spectrum of other birth defects. Post-traumatic dislocations of the hip in children are very uncommon, and anterior dislocation of the hip joint is even rarer. We report such a case following road traffic accident in a five-year-old child. The patient underwent successful emergent closed reduction of right hip under general anaesthesia. The clinical course and follow-up assessment of the patient were otherwise uneventful. At one year follow-up, there was no evidence of growth abnormalities in the head, no secondary arthritis and no signs of avascular necrosis.

Keywords


Hip, Anterior Dislocation, Child.

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