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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 87-B, Issue 4 | Pages 565 - 567
1 Apr 2005
Baumgart R Krammer M Winkler A Hinterwimmer S Muensterer O Mutschler W

We report the case of a 22-year-old woman who underwent plate and screw fixation for a traumatic left acetabular fracture and fixation with cancellous screws for an associated femoral neck fracture. Two months later, the internal fixation became infected and was removed. This resulted in a painful high dislocation of the hip. We solved the problem with continuous soft-tissue distraction using a fully implantable motorised distraction nail in order to reduce the proximal femur prior to total hip arthroplasty. To our knowledge, this is the first time that reduction of a high dislocation of the hip has been performed using such a system.