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One specific kind of pelvic fracture is known as an 'open book' fracture. This is often the result of a heavy impact to the groin (pubis), a common motorcycling accident injury. In this kind of injury, the left and right halves of the pelvis are separated at front and rear, the front opening more than the rear, i.e. like an open book that falls ...
Direct (or indirect via the proximal femur) lateral impact against the pelvic ring Superior directed force to one side of the pelvis Combination of other injury vectors (e.g. LC + VS) APC I - Symphysis widening < 2 cm LC I - Compression fractures of the pubic rami (superior pubic ramus and inferior pubic ramus) and ipsilateral anterior sacral ala
vertical pelvic fracture through both pubic rami and the ilium or sacroiliac joint with vertical displacement: high energy impact to pelvis (front to back) Malgaigne's fracture at TheFreeDictionary.com: March fracture: Marching: stress fracture of a metatarsal shaft: heavy or unaccustomed exercise: Metatarsal Stress Fracture at eMedicine ...
Innominate bone avulsion or wing fracture Stable ring fracture with intact posterior arch Denis III transverse sacral fracture B - rotationally unstable/vertically stable: Open-book external rotation injury Young-Burgess lateral compression type internal rotation injury Bilateral C - rotationally and vertically unstable
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "Pelvic fracture classifications" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Wikipedia® is ...
They are caused by direct trauma to the iliac wing, and are generally stable fractures as they do not disrupt the weight bearing pelvic ring. [ 1 ] The fracture is named after the French surgeon Joseph Guichard Duverney who described the injury in his book Maladies des Os which was published posthumously in 1751.
In this picture of the pelvis, the sacrum is the butterfly-shaped bone in the middle Lateral view of the sacrum and the coccyx. A sacral fracture is a break in the sacrum bone. The sacrum is the large triangular bone that forms the last part of the vertebral column from the fusion of the five sacral vertebrae. Sacral fractures are relatively ...
A Malgaigne fracture is vertical pelvic fracture with bilateral sacroiliac dislocation and fracture of the pubic rami. It is named for Joseph-François Malgaigne . Classification