title: Traumatic posterior hip dislocation and ipsilateral distal femoral fracture in a 22-month-old child: a case report.
abstract: Minor trauma may cause hip dislocation in young children because of physiologic hip joint laxity and the soft cartilaginous structure of the acetabulum. In this work, we report on a 22-month-old boy with right-sided traumatic posterior hip dislocation and ipsilateral distal femoral fracture because of an outdoor motor vehicle accident. The patient was treated with emergency closed reduction and one and a half hip spica under general anaesthesia. The femoral fracture and hip dislocation were healed smoothly without any complication. Traumatic hip dislocation is rare in children, which may occur after trivial trauma. Prognosis is better in younger patients with low-energy trauma and in cases treated early.
authors: aDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey bDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Near East University Faculty of Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus.
authors: Mert
authors: M
authors: Ciftdemir
authors: Deniz
authors: D
authors: Aydin
authors: Mert
authors: M
authors: Ozcan
authors: Cem
authors: C
authors: Copuroglu
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D005270:Femur Head / Q000293:injuries*; D006617:Hip Dislocation / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male