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DELAYED PRESENTATION OF POSTERIOR FRACTURE DISLOCATION OF THE HIP IN A CHILD
Author(s) -
Garvan John D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1983.tb02493.x
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , dislocation , complication , case presentation , hip fracture , fracture (geology) , surgery , osteoporosis , geotechnical engineering , engineering , materials science , composite material
A case of delayed presentation of posterior fracture dislocation of the hip in a child is reported. Only four similar adult cases have been described in the English medical literature. This case is even more perplexing than those already reported in that AP and lateral X‐rays of the affected hip were performed on initial presentation and were normal. The mechanism of such a phenomenon, explanations for failure to detect such an injury and methods of avoiding this complication are presented.