Before treating pelvic disruption it is prudent to characterize the injury by its clinical and radiologic features.Clinical and Radiographic assessment of the pelvic fracture victim. Patient should be cilnically examined to look for open wounds, deformities, neurovascular assessment, and uogenital and rectal injury

Radiologic evaluation is carried out by plain xrays (anteroposterior, inlet, outlet, Judet views), computed tomography, fluoroscopy and stress views. In case of need specialized imaging like 3D CT, angiogram, magnetic resonance imaging can be done. [Read more...]