Diagnostic performance of digital tomosynthesis for postoperative assessment of acetabular fractures and pelvic ring injuries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Digital tomosynthesis (DTS) has broad non-orthopaedic applications and has seen limited use within orthopaedics for imaging of the wrist. The utility of DTS for assessing reduction and hardware placement following operative treatment of pelvic ring injuries and acetabular fractures has not previously been investigated.

Methods

All operatively treated acetabular fractures and pelvic ring injuries that underwent surgical fixation within a one-year time span received both a computed tomography (CT) scan and a DTS scan as part of their routine postoperative imaging workup. Three orthopaedic traumatologists independently reviewed the images for face-value clinical utility. Radimetrics and PCXMC software were utilized on a subset of the study population's DTS and CT s

SUBMITTER: Coscia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11543565 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature