Surgical Management of Acetabular Fractures – A Contemporary Literature Review

Surgical management of acetabular fractures is now commonplace for almost all displaced or unstable fractures. Over the last 20 years however, the patient population has aged, and there have been significant changes to safety in motor vehicles and the work-place, and people's activity types and levels have changed. The surgical specialty has also developed with time, and as a result acetabular fracture surgery today is different to 20 years ago.We have repeated a meta-analysis originally published by Giannoudis et al in 2005, to evaluate contemporary aspects of acetabular fracture patients, injury mechanisms, management, complications and functional outcomes.

Source: Injury - June 23, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: J. Kelly, A. Ladurner, M. Rickman Source Type: research