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Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report
Bilateral knee dislocation is an extremely rare and devastating injury to the knee joint. This injury is a true emergency as concomitant injuries may threaten life and limb. Here, we report the case of a 26-year-old male patient who sustained bilateral knee dislocation due to a high-velocity motor v...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607962/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853734 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18989 |
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description | Bilateral knee dislocation is an extremely rare and devastating injury to the knee joint. This injury is a true emergency as concomitant injuries may threaten life and limb. Here, we report the case of a 26-year-old male patient who sustained bilateral knee dislocation due to a high-velocity motor vehicle accident. In this case, the patient suffered a feared complication associated with knee dislocation, popliteal artery disruption with peroneal nerve damage. Abdominal and skeletal injuries were also discovered and treated appropriately by a multidisciplinary team. A staged surgical approach to ligament reconstruction was used without any postoperative complication. Postoperatively, the patient successfully returned to his preoperative activity level. |
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spelling | pubmed-86079622021-11-30 Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report Harris, Benjamin T Eichman, Elizabeth A Burrus, Matthew T Cureus Orthopedics Bilateral knee dislocation is an extremely rare and devastating injury to the knee joint. This injury is a true emergency as concomitant injuries may threaten life and limb. Here, we report the case of a 26-year-old male patient who sustained bilateral knee dislocation due to a high-velocity motor vehicle accident. In this case, the patient suffered a feared complication associated with knee dislocation, popliteal artery disruption with peroneal nerve damage. Abdominal and skeletal injuries were also discovered and treated appropriately by a multidisciplinary team. A staged surgical approach to ligament reconstruction was used without any postoperative complication. Postoperatively, the patient successfully returned to his preoperative activity level. Cureus 2021-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8607962/ /pubmed/34853734 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18989 Text en Copyright © 2021, Harris et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Orthopedics Harris, Benjamin T Eichman, Elizabeth A Burrus, Matthew T Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title | Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title_full | Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title_short | Traumatic Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Dislocation: A Case Report |
title_sort | traumatic simultaneous bilateral knee dislocation: a case report |
topic | Orthopedics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607962/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853734 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18989 |
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