A 64-Year-Old Man Is Brought to the Emergency Department After

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Multiple Choice

A 64-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after a high-speed motor vehicle collision.  The patient was a restrained passenger in a truck involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle.  On examination, he is alert and oriented with severe pain and deformity of the right lower extremity.  The patient is lying on his left side with a shortened and internally rotated right leg.  The right hip is flexed and adducted, the right knee is flexed, and he is unable to dorsiflex or to straighten the right leg, even with assistance.  Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

• A)Anterior hip dislocation
• B)Femoral neck fracture
• C)Knee dislocation
• D)Posterior hip dislocation
• E)Trochanteric fracture

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