Epidemiology and Mechanism of Injury With an aging population, the prevalence and burden of all osteopenic fractures, especially hip fractures, continue to be a concern. Specifically, in patients over the age of sixty, there has been a 2.4-fold increase in the incidence of acetabular fractures over the past quarter of a century, and geriatric patients are the fastest growing subgroup of patient...

BACKGROUND Motor vehicle crashes are the most common cause of acetabular fractures, which have been associated with significant morbidity and mortality. METHODS To date, medical and collision information has been collected on 83 acetabular fracture patients treated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Level I trauma center. The fractures were grouped according to the Judet-Letournel c...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to review the treatment of patients with ipsilateral acetabular and femur fractures to provide descriptive demographic data, injury pattern classification, treatment, and evaluate the complication profile reflective of current practices. STUDY DESIGN Multicenter retrospective cohort. SETTING Eight Level 1 Trauma Centers. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS One h...

Background. Interest in arthroplasty techniques for periarticular or intra-articular fractures in the elderly/osteoporotic patient continues to rise, including for geriatric acetabular fractures. In line with this, many acetabular fracture surgeons are now undertaking acute total hip arthroplasty in elderly/osteoporotic patients. Little is known however of the outcomes of this procedure, beyond...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acetabular fractures are often combined with associated injuries to the hip joint. Some of these associated injuries seem to be responsible for poor long-term results and these injuries seem to affect the outcome independent of the quality of the acetabular reduction. The aim of our study was to analyze the outcome of both column acetabular fractures and the influence of ...

Acetabular fractures in older patients are challenging to manage. The "fix and replace" construct may present a new paradigm for the management of these injuries. We present the current challenge of acetabular fractures in older patients. We present this in the context of the current literature. This invited editorial presents early results from our centre and the ongoing challenges are discussed.

Acetabular fractures in the elderly are increasingly common; however, an antecedent of trauma may not be known, and the diagnosis easily missed. Early identification and prompt management are needed in order to minimise morbidity rates, but little has been published on occult acetabular fracture.In this paper we present three cases of occult acetabular fracture in patients older than 75 years. ...

BACKGROUND Management of acetabular fractures in the senior population can be one of the most challenging injuries to manage. Furthermore, treating surgeons have a paucity of information to guide the treatment in this patient population. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE (1) demographic and epidemiologic data, (2) mortality rates for nonoperative compared to operative management at d...

INTRODUCTION The removal of a well-fixed acetabular component in a total hip arthroplasty can cause bone fractures, excessive bleeding, as well as extended bone loss. The reimplantation of a new acetabular component may be compromised. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a technique using 2 cork-screws for removal a stable cemented acetabular component for the treatment of a recurrent dislocation ...

OBJECTIVE Our study analyzed the incidence of posterior pelvic injury patterns and their influence on the surgical treatment of transverse-oriented acetabular fractures . METHODS Fifty-one transverse-oriented acetabular fracture cases admitted between 1999 and 2013 were evaluated retrospectively. Comparative studies were performed for groups organized by acetabular fracture type, degree of sa...