title: [Multiple stress fractures of the anterior and posterior pelvic ring with progressive instability. Description of a pronounced case with review of the literature].
abstract: We report a case of a 64-year old female patient, who developed a total instability of the pelvic ring within one year as a result of increasing insufficiency fractures. A minor trauma of the pelvis was assumed to be the trigger of this process retrospectively. The radiographic appearance of the multiple pseudoarthrosis simulated a metastatic disease. The differential diagnosis and the typical pattern of sacral insufficiency fractures (SIF) are described.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Stuttgart.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Geiselhart
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abele
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D015775:Fractures, Stress / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed