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The Clinical Analysis of the Pelvic Fracture

Ki Hong Choi, Chung Nam Kang
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
Corresponding author: Chung Nam Kang. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

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Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

A clinical analysis was mode on the 106 cases of the pelvic fracture and summarized as follows.

1) The most frequent cause of pelvic fracture was the automobile accident with 77(72.7%) out of 106 cases.

2) The most common type of pelvic fracture was the fracture of single ramus of public bone in 45.2% of patient. Malgaigne fracture were eleven (10.4%) including four of verticak shear type and three lateral compression type.

3) The 76 cases (68.3%) out of 106 pelvic fracture had been accompanied other injuries elsewhere. 47 of those had fractures of other bone or dislocations and rest of them had soft tissue injuries.

4) The 21 cases had hematuria including nine cases of bladder or urethral injuries. Two cases out of six urethary injury had the late complication of urethral stricture.

5) The severe internal hemorrhage had complicated on nine cases. No surgical intervention was done, however, two of them were expired due to uncontrolable internal hemorrhage.



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