Can Lumbopelvic Fixation Salvage Unstable Complex Sacral Fractures?

• Published in: Clinical orthopaedics and related research Vol. 470; no. 8; pp. 2132 - 2141
• Main Authors: Jones, Clifford B., Sietsema, Debra L., Hoffmann, Martin F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.08.2012; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Bone Malalignment - complications; Bone Malalignment - surgery; Conservative Orthopedics; Female; Fracture Fixation - methods; Humans; Limb Salvage - methods; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Orthopedics; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Retrospective Studies; Sacroiliac Joint - surgery; Sacrum - injuries; Spinal Fractures - complications; Spinal Fractures - surgery; Spinal Fusion - methods; Sports Medicine; Surgery; Surgical Orthopedics; Symposium: Disruptions of the Pelvic Ring: An Update; Trauma; Treatment Outcome; Posterior Pelvic Ring; Pedicle Screw; Pelvic Ring Injury; Pelvic Ring; Sacral Fracture

Background Traditional screw or plate fixation options can be used to fix the majority of sacral fractures. However, these techniques are unreliable with dysmorphic upper sacral segments, U-fractures, osseous compression of neural elements, and previously failed fixation. Lumbopelvic fixation can po...