[Acetabular Fractures at CHU Gabriel Toure : epidemiology, therapeutic and evolutinaryaspects]

Acetabularfractures involving the functionalprognosis of the hip. The aim of thisworkwas to determine the epidemiological, clinical, and outcome aspects of treatment.

This wasa retro-prospective study of patients withacetabulum fracture treated and followedfromJanuary 2015 to June 2018.

Wecollected 49 patients with an acetabulum fracture. Acetabulum fractures made up 8.3% of all pelvic injuries during the studyperiod. The male sexprevailed (87.8%) with a sex ratio of 7.16. The averageagewas 36.14 years (range: 17 years and 77 years). The circumstances of the trauma were accidents on the public highway (69.4%), accidents atwork (14.3%), accidents in the home (10.2%), accidents in sports (4.1%), assaults (2%). The mechanismwas indirect in 87.8%.Pain with total functional impotence wasobservedin 83.7% and with a vicious attitude of the traumatized limbin 89, 8%. The standard radiographywith the incidences of the pelvis face as well as the ¾ wing and ¾ obturatorwasperformed in all patients. The transverse fracture of the acetabulumwas the mostcommonanatomo-radiological type (61.2%). Shock (34.6%) and hip dislocation (24.4%) were the mostcommonearly complications. Treatment was orthopedicin 95.9%. After an averagefollow-up of 23.24 months, the anatomicalresultsweresatisfactoryin 32.7% and the functionalresults good in 51%. Lameness (91.8%), mechanical pain (30.6%) and osteoarthritis (16.3%) were the main complications in the medium term.

Fractures of the acetabulum are the preserve of the adult, especially of the male. The complications are dominated by mechanical pain, lameness and early hip osteoarthritis. The anatomicalresultsthat condition the functionalresults are less good with the orthopedictreatment.