Study of sacral index and sacral hiatus – In adult dry sacra
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Anatomy - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Anatomists and anthropologists since long acknowledged the importance of sacrum in the determination of sex of deceased individual. Medicolegally sacrum has great importance. Various parameters and indices were used to determine the sex of sacrum. Among these parameters sacral index significantly varies among male and females. Also Sacral hiatus generally used for administration of epidural caudal block. The knowledge of anatomy of sacral hiatus plays a major role in the success of needle placement. The present study aimed to study the anthropometric measurements of 103 adult sacra (M: F= 70:33), Maharashtra, India. Intact and dry sacrums sourced from the bone banks of Medical colleges in Maharashtra were studied. Sacral index was found to be the best parameter for sex determination of sacrum amongst the parameter studied. However not a single parameter could identify 100% of the bones. In this study of sacral hiatus we have taken features like the shape and extent of sacral hiatus, level of apex and base of sacral hiatus. Therefore, the present study aims to create a database for the SI and sacral hiatus of above mentioned population.
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Sunil J Pundge, Uddhav Mane, Deepak Joshi
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