ALREFEIDI TAREQ ABDULLAH

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Armed Forces Hospital Southern Region, Khamis Mushyt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Publications

• Case Reports
  Traumatic Obturator hip dislocation with an iatrogenic femoral head fracture: A case report with two year follow-up
  Author(s): ALQAHTANI MOHAMMAD SHABAN, ALBARQI BANDER ALI and ALREFEIDI TAREQ ABDULLAH*
  
  Traumatic hip dislocation is a common and dangerous condition in young people who have undergone high-energy trauma. The obturator anterior hip is a highly unusual condition among hip dislocations that requires specialized treatment and reduction techniques by an expert to avoid complications. A 25-year-old female reported to our emergency department with complaints of left hip pain, deformity, and reduced range of motion after falling from a horse. The patient was diagnosed with left hip obturator dislocation- that the ED physician reduced with sedation- resulting in iatrogenic femoral head fracture. CT and post-reduction radiographs revealed an incongruent left hip joint and a Pipkin II femoral head fracture. The patient received an emergency open reduction internal fixation and trochanteric sliding osteotomy with no intra- or post-operative complications. The patient returned to he.. Read More»