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Traumatic Hip Dislocation in Children

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Traumatic hip dislocation in children is rare and the goal is to reduce the hip urgently. This can be achieved under conscious sedation in the emergency department or under general anaesthesia in the operating room. The most commonly encountered complications are non-concentric reduction, AVN, coxa magna, traumatic proximal epiphysiolysis and recurrent hip dislocation. Associated injuries and neurovascular complications (such as sciatic nerve injury) are rarely encountered in pediatric patients because of the relatively low energy trauma that is required to dislocate the hip. As a result, the outcomes of traumatic hip dislocation in children are typically better than in adults.

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    Hossam Hosny, Wael Salama, Ahmed Abdelaal & Mohamed Kenawey

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  1. Clinical Director of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Manchester Children Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

    Sattar Alshryda

  2. Weill Cornell Medicine, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    Jason J. Howard

  3. Senior Attending Physician in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    James S. Huntley

  4. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Jeffrey Mast Chair of Orthopaedic Hip and Trauma Surgery, Nashville, TN, USA

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Hosny, H., Salama, W., Abdelaal, A., Kenawey, M. (2019). Traumatic Hip Dislocation in Children. In: Alshryda, S., Howard, J., Huntley, J., Schoenecker, J. (eds) The Pediatric and Adolescent Hip. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12003-0_17

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