Nine patients with posterior fracture-dislocation of the hip were reviewed after a post therapeutic period varying from seven months to eight years, and examined personally in an attempt to evaluate their functional results.
Using criteria advocated by Stewart and Milford, the results were rated as excellent in four, good in one, fair in two, and poor in two patients.
In those remained dislocated for more than one month no good result was obtained.
Regardless of the type of treatment or dislocation, there was no satisfactory result in the cases which had elapsed more than five years after injury.
This unsatisfactory results were principally due to avascular necrosis of femoral head or traumatic arthritis of hip.
It cannot be overemphasized that too optimistic policy in treating traumatic dislocation of hip must be discarded.
