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1: J Orthop Trauma. 1996;10(3):216-9. Links

Unrecognized foreign body in the hip joint.

Nassif JM, Gorczyca JT, Vanarthos WJ.

Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

A 40-year-old woman involved in a motor vehicle accident sustained a left acetabular fracture and a dislocated left hip with a large ipsilateral traumatic hip wound. Multiple plain radiographic films of the pelvis and a pelvic computed tomographic scan were obtained. None of these images showed a 25 x 20 x 12-mm piece of the gearshift that was found in the hip joint at the time of the surgery. Hence, we present this case highlighting an unusual phenomenon in which a large foreign body was not recognized on preoperative radiographic studies.

PMID: 8667116 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]