title: The morphometric study of the sacrospinal and sacrotuberal ligaments correlated with the morphometry of the pelvis.
abstract: Perineal neuralgias may be considered as nerve entrapment syndromes, which have been anatomically poorly studied. The pudendal nerve could be compressed between the sacrospinal and the sacrotuberal ligaments. This study tries to find a correlation between the pelvis and the lumbosacral junction morphometry, and sacrospinal and sacrotuberal ligaments morphometry. We did an anatomical study of eight anatomic specimens, and we performed the measures by using the computed tomography scanner. No correlations were found.
authors.affiliation: service de Neurochirurgie, CHU de Brest, Laboratoire d'Anatomie, faculté de médecine de Brest, 29609 Brest Cedex, France. rseizeur@aol.com
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seizeur
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Forlodou
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Person
authors.forename: J-F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sénécail
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D003050:Coccyx / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007512:Ischium / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008022:Ligaments / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D010387:Pelvimetry; D010388:Pelvis / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D010502:Perineum / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D011630:Pubic Bone / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D012447:Sacrum / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed