Tehran University of Medical Sciences Acta Medica Iranica 0044-6025 47 3 2009 06 15 241 243 EN Zahid Hussain Khan Department of Anesthesiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ali Akbar Soleimani Department of Anesthesiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Javad Mortazavi Department of orthopedic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2015 09 28 All surgical positions carry some degree of position-related risks. The most common serious positional injuries are peripheral nerve injuries. We present a case of 23 years old man with obturator nerve injury with clinically evident sequelae following a scapulopexy of the right shoulder in prone position. Basis on our knowledge, no similar cases have been described in the literature. The purpose of this report is to increase awareness of this unreported potential complication in the prone position. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/3583 https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/3583/3559