Table 1.
Patients’ data, procedures and outcomes
| Case | Type of trauma |
Age (years) | Time from trauma to surgery (days) | Denis | Follow-up time (months) | Majeed score | Displacement (mm) | Posterior fixation |
Anterior fixation |
Associated lesions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-surgical | Post-surgical | Follow-up | ||||||||||
| 1 | Industrial accident | 24 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 46 | 21 | 6 | 6 | Two IS screws, tension band | Ex-fix | Urethral tear |
| 2 | Industrial accident | 59 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 88 | 7 | 3 | 4 | One IS screw | Four-hole plate |
L4-L5 fracture (internal fixation) |
| 3 | Sports injury | 35 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 99 | 14 | 4 | 4 | Two IS screws | Ex-fix | |
| 4 | Car accident | 57 | 13 | 1 | 25 | 81 | 8 | 4 | 4 | Two IS screws | Six-hole plate, ex-fix | |
| 5 | Sports injury | 37 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 98 | 9 | 6 | 5 | One IS screw | None | Two-column acetabular fracture |
| 6 | Car accident | 28 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 81 | 8 | 5 | 5 | One IS screw | Ex-fix | |
| 7 | Motorbike accident | 39 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 82 | 7 | 3 | 4 | One IS screw | Four-hole plate | Bladder tear |
| 8 | Motorbike accident | 43 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 71 | 8 | 6 | 6 | One IS screw | Four-hole plate, ex-fix | |
| 9 | Industrial accident | 33 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 94 | 12 | 7 | 8 | One IS screw | Ex-fix | Splenic rupture |
| 10 | Sports injury | 48 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 84 | 8 | 4 | 4 | One IS screw | Four-hole plate | L1 fracture (conservative) |
| 11 | Sports injury | 37 | 16 | 3 | 18 | 66 | 17 | 12 | 13 | Two IS screws | Four-hole plate | Tibial plateau fracture, tibial shaft fracture |
| Mean | 40.0 | 7.18 | – | 18.91 | 80.91 | 10.82 | 5.45 | 5.73 | – | – | – | |
| SD | 11.02 | 4.68 | – | 3.45 | 15.16 | 4.66 | 2.54 | 2.72 | – | – | – | |
SD standard deviation, IS ilio-sacral