Fig. 3
From: Medium-term clinical results in patients with floating hip injuries
A 27-year-old female treated with injury control theory. Preoperative images suggested type C floating hip injury revealing a type C floating hip (A–F). An antegrade intramedullary fixation of femoral shaft fracture, followed by posterior fixation of the femoral head and posterior wall of the acetabulum and finally anterior fixation of the anterior ring and anterior column of the acetabulum on the seventh day after the injury (G, H). Immediate postoperative radiographs showing satisfactory reduction of all fractures (I–L). Postoperative CT suggesting anatomic reduction of acetabular fracture (M–O). Radiographs at 2 years of follow-up revealing severe post-traumatic osteoarthritis of the left hip with heterotopic ossification (P, Q), which was managed by implant removal and left THA at 3.5 years after the initial surgery (R), and the radiograph of 1 year after arthroplasty indicating no loosening of the prosthesis (S)