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Experience shows that repair of fractures of the pelvis is rapid, so that beyond the 21st day there are problems imposed by fairly advanced union, the fracture lines becoming obscured by abundant callus which fixes the fragments in malposition. Perfect cleaning of the fracture surfaces, an absolute requirement for anatomical reduction, is much more difficult. In practice, until the 14th post-accident day operative intervention is generally straightforward, but it becomes progressively less so during the 3rd week, at the end of which healing is generally fairly advanced.
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Letournel, E., Judet, R., Elson, R.A. (1993). Operative Treatment of Displaced Fractures Within Three Weeks of Injury. In: Elson, R.A. (eds) Fractures of the Acetabulum. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75435-7_22
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