The term, sacral fracture with traumatic spino-pelvic dissociation, is applied to those fractures of the sacrum in which there are both transverse and sagittal fracture lines in the sacrum, leading to a mechanical dissociation of the spine and the proximal fragment of the sacrum from the remaining sacrum and the pelvis. It is a quite rare pathological condition, and probably underdiagnosed. As ...

A 48-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus and retinitis pigmentosa was admitted with complaints of weakness of both lower limbs and urinary incontinence of 1year duration. Fundoscopy was suggestive of retinitis pigmentosa. On admission, the power in the legs was about Grade 2. Plain X-ray showed a sickle-shaped defect of the sacrum scimitar sacrum (Figure 1). MRI showed an anterior pres...

The sacrum of a disarticulated pelvis was scanned with a Pfizer 0450 computed tomographic scanner using contiguous 5 mm sections to display the normal computed tomographic anatomy of the sacrum. These anatomic sections were then compared with normal sacrums. In analyzing the computed tomographic anatomy, emphasis was placed on the central canal and sacral foramina, in that these landmarks are i...

hereby we report a case of well-differentiated intraosseous osteosarcoma in the sacrum. a 32-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a low echo-level mass in the pelvis searched by ultrasound in a routine physical examination. radiographically, the mass was misdiagnosed as a benign bony tumor originating from the sacrum. the tumor was completely resected and pathological diagnosis was ...

We have already presented two studies of the traditional carrier frame, the seita. In our first study, we reported on seita users supporting loads not on the lumbar vertebrae but on the sacrum. In the second study, we showed that carrying a load on the sacrum was efficient in terms of metabolic rate, muscle activity, cadence and subjective responses. The purpose of this study was to verify the ...