Sacral fractures are a heterogeneous group of fractures occurring in young people following
road traffic accidents and falls from height, or in the elderly with osteoporosis following trivial …

Pelvic ring injuries present a therapeutic challenge to the orthopedic surgeon. Management
is based on the patient's physiological status, fracture classification, and associated injuries …

Sacral fractures are a common component of pelvic fracture patterns and are an increasingly
diagnosed injury both due to increased utilization of CT in trauma evaluation as well as an …

Triangular osteosynthesis involves unilateral L5 iliac posterior instrumentation combined
with an iliosacral screw fixation. The aim of this study was to describe this procedure and …

Background Sacral fractures with spinopelvic dissociation are rare, and hard to diagnose
and treat. Fractures with a H-or U-shaped line are severely unstable, due to a dissociation of …

Purpose The purpose of the study is to determine the incidence of sacral fracture patterns on
CT imaging of pelvic trauma patients with correlation with mechanism of injury and pelvic …

Objectives: To identify whether formal sacral decompression provides improvement in
outcome for patients with neurologic deficit after sacral fracture compared with patients …

Study Design This is a retrospective study. Purpose Recent advances in intraoperative
imaging and closed reduction techniques have led to a shifting trend toward surgical …

Biomechanical Study of Posterior Pelvic Fixations in Vertically Unstable Sacral Fractures: An
Alternative to Triangular Osteosynthesis - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo …

Background Little attention in the literature appears to have been paid to the issue of
postoperative weight-bearing protocols for different injury patterns after pelvic fracture …