Occult external iliac vein injury after anterior dislocation of the sacroiliac joint in adult patient

Abstract

Anterior dislocation of the sacroiliac joint, characterized by dislocation of the ilium anterior to thesacrum, is a subtype of complete posterior pelvic ring disruption. This injury occurs mostly in children.We present an adult patient with anterior dislocation of the sacroiliac joint. It was associated withnumerous complications. To the best of our knowledge, it is only the second case reported in theliterature.© 2016 Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This isan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).