Table 1 Patient demographics

Mean age (years)

54 ± 22

Male: Female

18: 8

Trauma Mechanism

 Traffic accident

16

 Fall from height

8

 Pincer damage

2

ISS score

24 ± 11

Associated lesion

 Spinal fracture (Spinal cord injury)

15 (2)

 Upper-limb fracture

13

 Lower-limb fracture

8

 Morel-Lavellee

0

 Urogenital

2

 Abdominal

5

 Thoracic

15

 Craniofascial

9

 Heart and aortic

2

 Traumatic CPA

2

AO/OTA classification

 B1

6

 B2

9

 B3

4

 C1

2

 C2

5

 C3

0

Ramus fracture

 None

1

 Nondisplaced anterior arch

7

 Displaced anterior arch

18

Sacral fracture

 None

3

 Denis Zone 1

6

 Denis Zone 2

14

 Denis Zone 3

3

Preoperative nuerological deficit

 Impossible to evaluate due to other injury

4

 Gibbon 1

20

 Gibbon 2

0

 Gibbon 3

1

 Gibbon 4

1

Preoperative external fixater

18

Preoperative TAE

19

Trauma-to-surgery time (days)

6.6 ± 3.3

Admission period (days)

34 ± 21

Follow-up period (months)

23 ± 13