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In the past decade, traumatic disruption of the pelvic ring has become a major focus of orthopedic interest. Previously, conventional orthopedic wisdom held that surviving patients with disruptions of the pelvic ring recovered well clinically from their musculoskeletal injury. However, the literature on pelvic trauma was mostly concerned with life-threatening problems and paid scant attention to the late musculoskeletal problems reported in a handful of articles published prior to 1980. In spite of the clinical impression that most patients do well, some authors have suggested otherwise
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Tile, M. (1987). Fractures of the Pelvis. In: The Rationale of Operative Fracture Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02483-6_10
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