Open AccessTraumatic posterior dislocation of the hip: distribution and severity of associated injuries
Author(s) -
II Onche,
KC Obiano,
KM Udoh
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v17i3.37408
Subject(s) - medicine , injury severity score , trauma center , surgery , presentation (obstetrics) , prospective cohort study , injury prevention , poison control , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine
Posterior hip dislocation is a major orthopaedic injury resulting from high-energy trauma. Morbidity and mortality is very high usually resulting from the associated injuries sustained during the trauma. We carried out this study to find out the usual associated injury distribution and severity in our environment.