This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

SAMUEL KLEINBERG, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1944;49(2):104-108.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The purpose of this report is twofold: first, to call attention to the possibility of traumatic dislocation of the hip occurring without rupture of the ligamentum teres; second, to record a typical case of aseptic necrosis and deformity of the head of the femur with its ligamentum teres intact and thoroughly vascularized, the pathologic condition having arisen from a traumatic interruption of the blood supply of the femoral head coming through the capsule of the hip joint.

It had been my impression¹ that aseptic necrosis of the femoral head following a traumatic dislocation of the hip was the result of two factors: (1) rupture of the ligamentum teres during the dislocation, with consequent deprivation of its blood supply to part of the femoral head, especially to the summit of the head, and (2) too early weight bearing, with collapse of the osseous lamellas before adequate regeneration of bone. My . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Footnotes
Read before the Orthopaedic Section of the New York Academy of Medicine on April 21, 1944.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?