Does fracture pattern predict death with lateral compression type 1 pelvic fractures?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 876-879

  Manson, Theodore T ^a   Nascone, Jason W ^a   Sciadini, Marcus F ^a   O'Toole, Robert V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateral compression type 1; LC1; Mortality prediction; Pelvis fracture; Young Burgess classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DEATH; FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LATERAL COMPRESSION TYPE 1 PELVIC FRACTURE; MORTALITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIC BONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SACRUM; SPINAL FRACTURES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 77958191625     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e785bf     Document Type: Article

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