Incidence and Injury Mechanisms of Tibia Head Fractures among Pedestrians.

Author(s)
Lanz, C. Walz, F.H. Muser, M.H. Schmitt, K.U. & Otte, D.
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Abstract

The paper focuses on the incidence of tibia head fractures sustained in car-pedestrian accidents. The AIS scores for tibia fractures are presented,especially the differences between AIS 1990 and 2005 and its implicationson the statistics. A review of the literature is given of which no conclusions to the true incidence of knee injury can be drawn. A sample of pedestrian accidents of the Medical University Hanover (MUH) is closely examined; however, no single parameter correlating with the risk of tibia head fractures in pedestrians can be identified statistically or technically. Nevertheless, biomechanical circumstances under which a tibia head fracture may occur can be identified. It is questionable whether those circumstancesare reproduced by the current leg impactor tests. For the covering abstract see ITRD E141569.

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C 46196 (In: C 46159 CD-ROM) /84 / ITRD E141591
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2006 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, Madrid (Spain), September 20-22, 2006, Pp.

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