Abstract
Although traumatic hip dislocation has become a common injury due to increased traffic accidents in recent years, there have been relatively few case reports of it occurring during sports activities. Cases of hip dislocation with femoral head fractures are rare. We hereby report a case of hip dislocation with a femoral head fracture that occurred while the patient was playing basketball. The patient was a 27-year-old male who was injured when he fell down while playing basketball. We diagnosed him with a hip dislocation with femoral head fracture. Reduction of the dislocation was performed on the same day under general anesthesia. After the reduction, displacement of the femoral head bone fragments was seen, and thus we performed open reduction and internal fixation. One year after the surgery, the patient complained of mild discomfort in the hip joint area. He has no problems in his daily lifestyle and sports activities; no femoral head necrosis was noted in either X-ray findings or on MRI. It appears that in the present case, the injury occurred due to the application of a strong shearing force to the femur head when the patient fell down. However, it is unclear why this led to a fracture dislocation of the hip joint.
