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REPORT OF FOUR CASES

RANDOLPH L. ANDERSON, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1943;46(5):598-603.

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Complete dislocation of the knee is relatively rare. Robbins¹ stated that up to 1909 only 270 cases had been reported in the literature, of which 114 were of the forward or anterior type of complete dislocation. Ritter² reported that complete dislocation of the knee was observed in only 1 of 23,000 patients admitted to the Reconstruction Hospital in New York. Ransohoff³ stated that at the Cincinnati General Hospital only 3 persons with complete dislocation of the knee had been encountered in a period of twenty-eight years—1 had posterior and lateral dislocation, 1 anterior and lateral dislocation and 1 incomplete lateral dislocation.

As is well known, there are five types of dislocation: (a) anterior, (b) posterior, (c) medial, (d) lateral and (e) rotary. These are named according to the ways in which the tibia is displaced on the femur.

There is always considerable tearing of the lateral and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHARLESTON, W. VA.

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