Author(s)

Mamadou Bassirou Traoré^1*, Mahamadou Diallo¹, Abdoul Kadri Moussa¹, Harouna Diallo¹, Elizé Dembélé¹, Layes Toure²

¹Service d’Orthopédie-Traumatologie, CHU Gabriel Touré (Mali), Bamako, Mali.
²Service d’Orthopédie Traumatologie, CHU de Kati (Mali), Kati, Mali.

Introduction: Traumatic hip dislocation associated with femur fracture is a rare and complex injury that occurs in the context of multiple trauma. Public road accidents represent more than 64% of the circumstances (automobiles 46% and two-wheelers 18%). Objective: Report a rare case of injury association and the speed of treatment (less than 6 hours). Clinical case: 26-year-old patient, victim of a road traffic accident. Admitted to the emergency room one hour after the trauma in a context of severe pain and absolute functional impotence of both pelvic limbs. Clinical examination reveals closed trauma to both pelvic limbs, with deformation of the right thigh, a vicious attitude of the contralateral lower limb in adduction, shortening and medial rotation. Conclusion: This is a rare injury association, which benefited from treatment within less than 6 hours.

Femur Fracture, Coxofemoral Dislocation, Contralateral

Traoré, M.B., Diallo, M., Moussa, A.K., Diallo, H., Dembélé, E. and Toure, L. (2024) Rare Case of Injury Association of Hip Dislocation and Femoral Controlateral Fracture. Surgical Science, 15, 565-570. doi: 10.4236/ss.2024.1511053.