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Case Reports
Failure and salvage of "INFIX" instrumentation for pelvic ring disruption in a morbidly obese patient.
- Matthew T Owen, Brandon Tinkler, and Rena Stewart.
- *Division of Orthopaedics; and †Section Trauma, Division of Orthopaedics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
- J Orthop Trauma. 2013 Oct 1;27(10):e243-6.
AbstractOpen-book pelvic fractures in the obese patient are accompanied by an increased risk of fixation failure. We report on the use of a recently described anterior subcutaneous pelvic internal fixator, the "INFIX" technique, in a morbidly obese patient. In this case, single and double rod constructs alone did not maintain adequate fixation due to the extreme forces in a morbidly obese patient. Successful salvage of the construct and satisfactory healing was achieved with the addition of 2 cross-links between the double rods of the INFIX.
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