title: Open anterior hip dislocation in a young adult with exposed femoral head and no neurovascular damage.
abstract: Anterior hip dislocation is common in younger adults and is the result of severe, high energy trauma such as high-velocity motor vehicle accidents or falls from great heights. A similar mechanism of injury would cause a femur neck fracture in older patients. Of these, open anterior hip dislocations are extremely rare and are usually associated with other soft tissue and bony injuries. We report a case of an open anterior hip dislocation with normal neurovascular status in a third world setting.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  trauma, open anterior, dislocation, hip, femoral head, osteonecrosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Bone and Joint Surgery, Barzalla, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Muzaffar
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Bone and Joint Surgery, Barzalla, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hafeez
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Bone and Joint Surgery, Barzalla, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bashir
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Bone and Joint Surgery, Barzalla, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh