The purpose of this study was to examine movement sequencing and the contributions of the motions of individual segments to the velocity of the foot during rugby kicking through a novel velocity decomposition method. Seven experienced male players participated in this study and kinematic data from each participant were recorded. The linear velocity of the kicking foot was decomposed to the line...

The relationship between spinal sagittal alignment and pelvic parameters is well known in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. However, few studies have reported the sagittal spinopelvic relationship after selective posterior fusion of thoracolumbar/lumbar (TL/L) curves. We evaluated the relationship between spinal sagittal alignment and the pelvis, and analyzed how the pelvic sagittal state is adj...

Although the anuran pelvis is thought to be adapted for jumping, the function of the iliosacral joint has seen little direct study. Previous work has contrasted the basal "lateral-bender" pelvis from the "rod-like" pelvis of crown taxa hypothesized to function as a sagittal hinge to align the trunk with take-off forces. We compared iliosacral movements and pelvic motor patterns during jumping i...

Spontaneous renal pelvis rupture is a rare situation. It is nearly always related to underlying renal abnormalities caused by calculus, infection, tumor or pregnancy, resulting in hydronephrosis. In some situations, it is iatrogenic, such as fluid overload during diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. Here, we present a case of spontaneous renal pelvis rupture with no predisposing factor foun...

1. Gynecological Malignancies: Gynecological malignancies are common accounting for 10-15% of all female malignancies [Kehoe, 2006]. Gynecological cancers are usually treated by surgery, chemotherapy and/ or radiotherapy. The management of patients with malignant gynecological disease depends upon the grade and stage of the malignancy, as well as the organ of origin. In endometrial cancer, earl...

Analyses of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus juvenile male partial skeleton from Kenya concluded that this species had a tall thin body shape due to specialized locomotor and climatic adaptations. Moreover, it was concluded that H. erectus pelves were obstetrically restricted to birthing a small-brained altricial neonate. Here we describe a nearly complete early Pleistocene adult female H. erectus...

Spinal and pelvis motion has been studied by a variety of different methods, the majority of which have a number of limitations. The present study investigated motion characteristics of the lumbar spine and pelvis using a three-dimensional optoelectronic system. The aim of our study was to determine kinematic parameters of spine and pelvis during trunk flexion, extension and lateral bending in ...

We performed construction of continent urinary reservoir in an 8-year-old girl with cloacal exstrophy who had double stoma of ileostomy and colon conduit. Preoperative evaluation revealed non-functioning right kidney with severely dilated renal pelvis and calyxes in her pelvis. Urinary reservoir was constructed using detubularized colon segment which had been used as the urinary conduit and dil...

INTRODUCTION A choriocarcinoma is a malignant neoplasm normally arising in the gestational trophoblast, gonads and, less frequently, the retroperitoneum, mediastinum and pineal gland. Primary choriocarcinomas of the renal pelvis are extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of primary choriocarcinoma of the renal pelvis in a 38-year-old Greek woman of reproductive age, presenting wit...

The objectives of this study were to: 1) develop and validate a realistic FE model of the pelvis using subject-specific bone geometry, location-dependent cortical thickness and trabecular bone elastic modulus, and 2) assess the sensitivity of FE predictions to assumptions in both assumed and measured model inputs. A finite element model of a cadaveric pelvis was created using subject-specific C...