title: [Diagnosis and treatment of occult sacral fracture].
abstract: The occult sacral fracture has no symptoms of sacral nerves injuries and no severe pain. These occult sacral fractures have no significant fracture signs on plain X-ray film, which can be found only by spiral CT or MRI and be misdiagnosed easily. This article made a brief review on the diagnosis and treatment of this type of sacral fractures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, the 6th Hospital of Ningbo, Ningbo 315040, Zhejiang, China. angells6@163.com
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rong-Ming
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012447:Sacrum / Q000293:injuries*; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed