1. Correction to: Single stage reconstruction of a neglected open book pelvic injury with bladder herniation into the upper thigh: a case-report
- Author
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Pol Maria Rommens, Joachim Thüroff, and Michiel Herteleer
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Single stage ,business.industry ,Urinary Bladder ,Correction ,Upper thigh ,General Medicine ,Plastic Surgery Procedures ,Fractures, Bone ,Thigh ,Orthopedic surgery ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Surgery ,Radiology ,Pelvic injury ,Pelvic Bones ,business ,Aged - Abstract
When open-book injuries are neglected and result into a pelvic malunion or nonunion, long-term problems, such as chronic pain, gait abnormalities, sitting discomfort, neurological symptoms and urogenital symptoms can occur. In this case report, we describe the repair of a neglected pelvic disruption with the dislocation of the urinary bladder in a one-stage procedure. The clinical image with which the patient presented could be split into unique sub-problems, for which separate solutions needed to be chosen: large symphysis diastasis, instability and pain in both SI joints, malunion of the superior and inferior pubic rami fractures; and urinary bladder herniation into the upper thigh. In a single-stage procedure, the pelvic ring was reconstructed and the bladder reduced. The patient was thereafter continent for urine and could walk independently. A complex clinical problem was divided into its sub-problems, for which specific solutions were found.
- Published
- 2021