Unstable pelvic ring injury with hemodynamic instability: What seems the best procedure choice and sequence in the initial management?

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-182

  Abrassart, S ^a   Stern, R ^a   Peter, R ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

External fixation; Packing; Pelvic unstable fracture; Polytrauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; GENDER; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INJURY; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PELVIS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; UNSTABLE PELVIC RING INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877899489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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