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A Comprehensive Basic Understanding Of Pelvis And Acetabular Fractures After High-Energy Trauma With Associated Injuries: Narrative Review Of Targeted Literature, Muhammad Atif, Obada Hussein Hasan, Naveed Baloch, Masood Umer
A Comprehensive Basic Understanding Of Pelvis And Acetabular Fractures After High-Energy Trauma With Associated Injuries: Narrative Review Of Targeted Literature, Muhammad Atif, Obada Hussein Hasan, Naveed Baloch, Masood Umer
Section of Orthopaedic Surgery
Acetabular fractures are caused by energy trauma which is high enough to cause such a fracture with incidence of 3 patients / 100000. In older individuals, most commonmechanism of injury is fall and, in younger individuals, road traffic accidents. Acetabular fractures are usually associated with visceral injuries and other musculoskeletal injuries (about 50% of patient). In this narrative review of targeted English literature from all level of evidences, which is written and supervised by experienced specialized orthopedic and trauma surgeons who were among the pioneers of conducting pelvis fracture management workshops in the country, we aim to describe the mechanism …
Sexual Dysfunction In Men After High Energy Pelvic Fractures: Narrative Review Of Targeted Literature, Obada Hussein Hasan, Muhammad Atif, Naveed Baloch, Imran K. Jalbani, Masood Umer
Sexual Dysfunction In Men After High Energy Pelvic Fractures: Narrative Review Of Targeted Literature, Obada Hussein Hasan, Muhammad Atif, Naveed Baloch, Imran K. Jalbani, Masood Umer
Section of Orthopaedic Surgery
Pelvic fractures represents high energy trauma with associated other organ injuries including intra-abdominal injuries, haemorrhage and extremity injuries. Anatomical location of genitourinary structures makes them vulnerable to injury with pelvic fracture. Incidence of sexual dysfunction varies in literature with 5% incidence of dysfunction in patients without urethral injury and 42% with urethral injuries. Hence in pelvic fracture, erectile dysfunction may be due to neurogenic, vascular, corporal and psychogenic injury. In this narrative review of targeted English literature from all level of evidences, which is written and supervised by experienced specialized orthopaedic, trauma and urology surgeons who were among the pioneers …