What is the most likely diagnosis?
- 41 year-old with hip pain following a motor vehicle collision
Frontal Radiograph of Pelvis
- Posterior Hip Dislocation
- Femoral Neck Fracture
- Diastasis of the Symphysis
- Inguinal Hernia
- Anterior Hip Dislocation
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Answer:
5. Anterior Hip Dislocation
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Anterior Hip Dislocation
General Considerations
- Hip dislocation accounts for only 5% of all dislocations
- Posterior hip dislocations are much more common than anterior hip dislocations (90% to about 10%)
- Mechanism in anterior dislocation classically occurs when knee strikes dashboard with the thigh abducted, externally rotated with hip flexed
- Also falls from a height
- Blow to the back while in squatted position
- Greater force required to dislocate an adult's hip than a child's