“…Despite great clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction rates [20] , intraoperative complications during THA are not uncommon, occurring in approximately 5.4% of cases, with femur fractures occurring most commonly [21] . Trial femoral head dislocation into the retroperitoneum is a much rarer complication with limited previous reports ( Table 2 ) [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] . Although the overall occurrence rate is undetermined, the incidence of this complication at our institution for 34,198 primary THAs from 1998 to present was extremely rare at 0.01%.…”