Role of Tile classification in predicting urethral injuries in pediatric pelvic fractures.

Urologic lesions accompanying pelvic fractures is a well-known entity, and reports on the correlation of pediatric pelvic fracture type with lower urinary tract injury are few in the literature. We have reviewed 27 records and x-ray films of male pediatric patients who required urologic intervention after trauma to see which type of fracture, classified according to Tile, has a higher predilection of urologic injury. Most of the fractures that were considered to be mechanically stable and mainly localized to the anterior pelvic arch had urologic lesions that were generally confined to the bulbomembranous urethra (48%).