Acetabular fractures in children and adolescents.

Abstract

A retrospective study of 23 acetabular fractures in patients up to 17 years of age is presented, with an average follow-up of eight years. Good or excellent functional results were achieved in 21 patients; radiographic results were good or excellent in 16. Conservative treatment gave consistently good results in fractures with minimal initial displacement, stable posterior fracture-dislocations and Salter-Harris type 1 and 2 triradiate cartilage fractures. Less favourable results were seen in type 5 triradiate cartilage fractures and in comminuted fractures, but operation was no better. Unstable posterior fracture-dislocations and irreducible central fracture-dislocations need operative treatment but the results may still be unsatisfactory.

• Authors: M Heeg, H J Klasen, J D Visser
• Journal: The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume (J Bone Joint Surg Br) Vol. 71 Issue 3 Pg. 418-21 (May 1989) ISSN: 0301-620X [Print] England
• PMID: 2722933 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Acetabulum (diagnostic imaging, injuries)
• Adolescent
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Fracture Fixation (methods)
• Fractures, Bone (complications, diagnostic imaging, therapy)
• Hip Dislocation (etiology)
• Humans
• Male
• Radiography
• Retrospective Studies