The Associated Injuries in Pelvic Fractures

Pelvic fractures associated with blunt trauma contributed significantly to morbidity and mortality.We reviewed 271 patients with pelvic fractures which were treated between March 1985 and Sep-tember 1994 in this study. Tint average age of pa-tients was 26.7 (between 3-70) years. The majority of the patients (%41.3) had one or more associated injuries: 43 with blunt abdominal trauma, 27 with - genitourinary tract injuries, 23 with thoracic in-juries, 22 with head trauma, 4 with neurologic in-juries and 3 with vascular injuries. There were Jive open pelvic fractures. Altough the overall mortality was %5.5 the mortality rate in. unstable pelvic "'Fac-tures was %9.6. The major causes of death in our patients were closed head injury, intra-abdontinal and intro-pelvic hemorrhage. The pelvic .fractures with associated injuries are serious trauma and re-quire more prompt and effective treatment methods.