Abstract
Complete dislocation of the knee is relatively rare. Robbins 1 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. Ritter 2 reported that complete dislocation of the knee was observed in only 1 of 23,000 patients admitted to the Reconstruction Hospital in New York. Ransohoff 3 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
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