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This study aims to assess the impact of the quality of osteoporotic QP fractures reduction on the patients\u2019 functional recovery, at 24\u00a0months follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Patients referring with osteoporotic QP fractures to our Level I trauma centre were prospectively recruited. Inclusion criteria: patients aged 60\u00a0years old or older; osteoporosis, defined as Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) T-score\u2009\u2264\u2009\u2212\u20092.5; acute acetabular fracture; anatomic or good fracture reduction according to Matta on postoperative CT. Exclusion criteria: moderate cognitive impairment (defined as Mini-Mental State Examination\u2009&lt;\u200919); a history of malignant neoplasm; concomitant fractures in other sites; traumatic head injury; lower limb joint prostheses; patient not able to walk independently before trauma; poor fracture reduction, according to Matta, on postoperative CT. All the QP fractures were surgically managed. After surgery, the reduction of each QP fracture was classified as anatomical (displacement 0\u20131\u00a0mm), good (displacement 2\u20133\u00a0mm) and poor (displacement &gt;\u20093\u00a0mm) on postoperative CT. Based on this classification: patients with a poor fracture reduction were excluded from this study, patients with an anatomical reduction were recruited in Group-A and patients with a good reduction in Group-B. All the patients underwent a clinical and radiographic 24-months follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>68 patients (males 38; females 30; mean age 68.6\u00a0years old; range 60\u201379) were finally included in in the study. No cases of open fractures or concomitant pelvic ring fractures were observed. Based on the post-operative CT, 39 patients showed an anatomic fracture reduction (Group-A) while the remaining 29 patients revealed a good fracture reduction (Group-B). Complication rates and mean clinical scores showed no significant differences between groups, at 24-months follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>In this study, the functional recovery at 24\u00a0months follow-up showed no significant differences in elderly patients with QP fracture undergoing anatomical reconstruction (displacement 0\u20131\u00a0mm) compared to patients receiving a good QP fracture reconstruction (displacement \u2264\u20093\u00a0mm).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s40520-020-01682-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,10]],"date-time":"2020-09-10T11:42:31Z","timestamp":1599738151000},"page":"1627-1633","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Internal fixation of acetabular quadrilateral plate fractures in elderly\u00a0patients: Could the fracture reduction quality affect  their\u00a0functional recovery?"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Antonello","family":"Panella","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giuseppe","family":"Solarino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7412-7990","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanni","family":"Vicenti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Davide","family":"Bizzoca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marco","family":"Baglioni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Fortunato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Maruccia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Angela","family":"Notarnicola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Piazzolla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Raffaele","family":"Pascarella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alberto","family":"Belluati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Biagio","family":"Moretti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"1682_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1307","DOI":"10.1016\/j.injury.2018.05.026","volume":"49","author":"Y Yang","year":"2018","unstructured":"Yang Y, Yi M, Zou C et al (2018) Mapping of 238 quadrilateral plate fractures with three-dimensional computed tomography. 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