Pelvis showing cornminuted fractures.
Object numberGC.5706
TitlePelvis showing cornminuted fractures.
DescriptionPelvis, with the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, showing cornminuted fractures.
From an adult male who was doubled up underneath a steam tramway car and instantaneously killed.
Extreme comminution has taken place on both sides, involving especially the pubes and ischia. Separation has taken place of each superior ramus at its junction with the body of the pubis and of the inferior ramus of the ischium at its junction with the tuberosity. On the right side medial to each fracture the rami are comminuted. On the left side a fracture passes through the pubic crest to the margin of the pubic arch comm1inuting the bone into the obturator foramen. A transverse fracture passes through the left acetabulum. The apex of the left and the whole of the right transverse process of the fifth lumbar vertebra have been broken off. The sacrum has been severely comminuted fracture passing vertically through each ala medial to the sacro-iliac articulation. Fractures pass transversely at the junction of the second and third sacral vertebrae and between the fourth and fifth sacral. The comminution especially of the right side of the sacrum was too great to allow replacement of the fragments.
A combined fracture dislocation of the pelvic ring. This is an extreme injury with fractures on the rami of both pubic bones and comminuted fracture — dislocation o both sacroiliac joints. (Diagram 13B Type 5).
Production periodLate nineteenth/early twentieth century
Object nameBONE, pelvis
Object categoryAnatomical, specimen
MaterialBONE
Dimensions
- Pelvis Height: 22 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 24 cm