Surgical hip dislocation in traumatology

Surgical hip dislocation showed excellent results in nontraumatic cases and allows for a 360° view of both acetabulum and femoral head. This technique may also be helpful in trauma cases: selected acetabular and femoral head fractures may be successfully treated. Those fractures are usually reduced and fixed trough anterior or posterior or combined approaches but an anatomical reduction may not be easy to achieve in some cases for limited exposure of the articular surface. Both surgical and clinical results seem to support the advantages of surgical hip dislocation for treatment of specific injuries of acetabulum and femoral head. The purpose of this chapter is to review the indications, the reducing procedures, the limitations and results of this technique in traumatic cases.