ArticleEuropean journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie2024
Nonoperative management of minimally displaced lateral compression type 1 (LC1) injuries with comminuted rami fractures is associated with late displacement.
Article in European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- A validated CT-based scoring system for lateral compression type one pelvic ring injuries provides insight into the spectrum of injury severity and guides treatment decisions; a prospective study.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2026Article
- Outcome of pelvic ring injuries.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeRami comminution has been found to be predictive of lateral compression type 1 (LC1) injury instability on examination under anesthesia (EUA) and lateral stress radiographs (LSR). The purpose of this study was to evaluate how rami comminution and subsequent operative vs. nonoperative management impact the late displacement of these injuries.
methodsRetrospective review of a prospectively collected LC1 database was performed to identify all patients with minimally displaced LC1 injuries (< 1 cm) and follow-up radiographs over a four-year period (n = 125). Groups were separated based on the presence of rami comminution and subsequent management, including rami comminution/operative (n = 49), rami comminution/nonoperative (n = 54), and no comminution/nonoperative (control group, n = 22). The primary outcome was late fracture displacement, analyzed as both a continuous variable and as late displacement ≥ 5 mm.
resultsAs a continuous variable, late fracture displacement was lower in the comminuted rami/operative group as compared to the comminuted rami/nonoperative group (PD: -3.0 mm, CI: -4.8 to -1.6 mm, p = 0.0002) and statistically non-different from control. Late displacement ≥ 5 mm was significantly more prevalent in the comminuted rami/nonoperative group than in the comminuted rami/operative and no comminution/nonoperative groups (control)(PD: -33.9%, CI: -49.0% to -16.1%, p = 0.0002 and PD: -30.0%, CI: -48.2% to -6.5%, p = 0.02, respectively).
conclusionLate fracture displacement was greatest in the group with rami comminution/nonoperative management. Rami comminution, which has been previously associated with dynamic displacement on EUA and LSR, is also associated with a higher incidence of late displacement when managed nonoperatively. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, prognostic retrospective cohort study.
Indexed as
Identifiers
37542555What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.