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Sacral fractures: classification and management
- Source :
- Emergency Radiology. 24:605-617
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- 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 increasing rate of sacral fragility fractures as a result of an increase in general population age. Innovations in minimally invasive surgical techniques have also resulted in an increasing number of sacral fractures undergoing surgical management. It is vital that physicians practicing in an emergency setting are aware of the injury patterns and management of this increasingly injured and treated component of the bony pelvis. This article reviews the sacral anatomy as well as discusses the role of imaging and imaging appearance of sacral fractures. Sacral fracture patterns are described along with both historic and newer classification systems for sacral fractures and current management of sacral fracture.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
Sacrum
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pelvic ring
Humans
Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Pelvic Bones
education
Pelvis
030222 orthopedics
education.field_of_study
business.industry
musculoskeletal system
medicine.disease
Sacral fracture
Surgery
body regions
medicine.anatomical_structure
Current management
Bony pelvis
Emergency Medicine
Pelvic fracture
Spinal Fractures
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14381435 and 10703004
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emergency Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ff4b3959c72067245a4ad1547702186