Spinopelvic Fixation in Complex Sacral Fractures

by Gregory D. Schroeder, Jason W. Savage, Alpesh A. Patel, and Michael D. Stover

JBJS ReviewsVolume 3(3):e4March 24, 2015

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Classification system of Denis et al.

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Isler classification for sacral fractures.

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Roy-Camille sacral fracture classification.

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Sacral fracture classification by letter.

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Figs. 5A through 5D A forty-two-year-old male patient who was involved in a high-speed motorcycle crash.

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Figs. 6A through 6E Fifty-year-old male patient who fell 30 feet with a vertically unstable sacral fracture with a lambda pattern.

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A 5-mm Schanz pin is placed in the posterior superior iliac spine of the unaffected side and connected to the skeletal stabilization frame for unilateral vertically unstable pelvic fractures.

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