Dr. Mullis shares the symptoms associated with an acetabular fracture.
Dr. Mullis:
Pain. Many times it’s a high-energy injury, and usually the patients themselves have made the diagnosis before I have seen them. They will come in saying that they have broken their hip.
About Dr. Mullis, M.D.:
Dr. Brian Mullis, M.D., is the Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma Service and Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine. He has a special clinical interest in orthopaedic trauma and post-traumatic complications with a focus on pelvis and acetabulum fractures, peri-articular fractures of both upper and lower extremity, bone healing, nonunions, malunions, deformity and post-traumatic infections.
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