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This study aimed to determine whether adding direct rami fixation to symphyseal plating improves clinical and radiologic outcomes in APC-type pelvic ring injuries. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included a final cohort of 98 patients with APC type II or III pelvic ring injuries and concomitant pubic rami fractures treated at a Level 1 trauma center (2014\u20132022). All patients underwent plate-based symphyseal fixation, classified into four groups by fixation strategy. Primary outcomes were rami nonunion and implant-related complications, analyzed with parsimonious multivariate logistic regression (events-per-variable ratio \u2265 10). Results: Among 98 patients (mean age 45.4 \u00b1 16.2 years; 76.5% male), complete posterior ring injury was independently associated with rami nonunion (aOR 8.176; 95% CI 2.448\u201327.309; p = 0.001), implant-related complications (aOR 3.364; 95% CI 1.250\u20139.049; p = 0.016), and overall complications (aOR 4.292; 95% CI 1.640\u201311.233; p = 0.003). Female sex was an additional independent predictor of overall complications (aOR 4.226; 95% CI 1.443\u201312.378; p = 0.009). Direct rami fixation was not a significant predictor of any outcome but consistently increased operative time in pairwise subgroup comparisons (Group 1 vs. 2: 64.9 vs. 106.9 min, p &lt; 0.001; Group 3 vs. 4: 95.1 vs. 153.5 min, p &lt; 0.001). Pairwise subgroup comparisons were severely underpowered (power range 5\u201316%); therefore, the absence of statistically significant differences between fixation strategies should not be interpreted as evidence of equivalence. Because more complex fractures were more likely to receive additional fixation, confounding by indication further limits these comparisons. Conclusions: Complete posterior ring injury was the dominant predictor of adverse outcomes in APC-type pelvic ring injuries. In this underpowered exploratory analysis, adding direct rami fixation to symphyseal plating did not demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in complications but was associated with longer operative time. Direct rami fixation may be reserved for selected cases with marked displacement, poor indirect reduction, or compromised bone quality; larger prospective studies are needed before firm recommendations can be made.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15103773","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,14]],"date-time":"2026-05-14T16:27:56Z","timestamp":1778776076000},"page":"3773","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Selective Anterior Fixation for Rami Fractures in Anteroposterior Compression-Type Pelvic Ring Injuries: Impact of Posterior Stability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jeong-Hyun","family":"Koh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sumin","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9764-3912","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Won-Tae","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5373-169X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seungyeob","family":"Sakong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2164-6965","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wan-Sun","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-7634-7884","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daehyun","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5486-2560","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyung Keun","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"e261","article-title":"Pelvic ring injuries: Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment","volume":"6","author":"Whiting","year":"2023","journal-title":"OTA Int."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"458","DOI":"10.5435\/JAAOS-21-08-458","article-title":"Pelvic fractures: Part 2. 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