Volume
9, Issue 1, January – April 2023, Pages 89-93
Case Report
Posterior Dislocation of HIP with Posterior Acetabular wall Fracture Thompson and Epstein II with with Lipohemarthrosis
S T Sanikop, Ravi S Jatti, Sahil Kale, R B Uppin, Raunak Pareek
Professor, Post Graduate, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics, J.N. Medical College, KLE’s Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belagavi 590010, Karnataka, India.
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Hip joint is naturally a very stable joint and tends to require a significant amount of force to dislocate. Dislocation of hips usually occur in young individuals. Traumatic hip dislocations are common in high-energy automobile accidents. The amount of energy, position of hip at the time of trauma and its morphology determines the type of dislocation, its direction and the associated fractures. These factors are to be taken into consideration while assessing the case of hip dislocation in emergency. Such patients require a standard trauma evaluation, a thorough musculoskeletal and neurological examination and detailed radiographic evaluation. Here we present a case of 40-year-old man who sustained posterior hip dislocation with posterior wall acetabular fracture with lipo-hemarthrosis. Urgent open reduction and internal fixation of the posterior acetabular wall was done with recon plate and screws were done. To our knowledge, such injuries occur less often in the literature with such findings. Possible mechanisms of injury and operative procedures are discussed.
Keywords : Posterior dislocation of hip; Acetabular wall fractures; Lipo-Hemarthrosis of Hip.
Corresponding Author : R B Uppin, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, J.N. Medical College, KLE’s Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belagavi 590010, Karnataka, India.