[Serious pelvic traumatisms in children]

The rareness of pelvic fractures in children is due to the resilience of bony tissue and to the thickness of the periosteum at this age. Therefore, such fractures are most often seen after violent traumatisms, which explains their frequent association with visceral lesions that determine the gravity and dominate the prognosis. The authors have presented 9 observations of fractures of the pelvis, with or without pelvis dislocation, which were the most often associated with urological lesions either acute (urethral rupture, bladder rupture) neither chronic (hydronephrosis) but sometimes with vasculo-nervous, gynecological or others lesions. The different therapeutic techniques and their indications in the treatment of such fractures are similar to those used in the adult. Excepting those cases of polytraumatisms, where mortality remains elevated, the treatment of such fractures is most often satisfactory in the short term, but requires a thorough and prolonged monitoring in children presenting associated urological and gynecological lesions in order to evaluate with precision the long term prognosis.