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Transient palsy of hip abductors after a fall on the buttocks
1Divisione di Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A fall on the buttocks caused monolateral transient palsy of the hip abductors in two patients. Palsy could be ascribed to acute entrapment of the superior gluteal nerve between the piriformis muscle and the incisura ischiadica major.