RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Hip dislocations in chronic osteomyelitis.
JF Archives of Emergency Medicine
JO Arch Emerg Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 45
OP 47
DO 10.1136/emj.8.1.45
VO 8
IS 1
A1 O Onuba
A1 J Langa
YR 1991
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/8/1/45.abstract
AB We present two cases of spontaneous dislocation of the hip joint due to chronic osteomyelitis of the upper femur. Spontaneous hip dislocations occur in certain pathological conditions such as poliomyelitis (Ingram, 1980), cerebral palsy (Howard et al., 1985), osteomyelitis and neurofibromatosis.