Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ion of the acetabu-lum. (4) Separation of the sacroiliac joint. (5) Transverse fracture of the sacrum, orthat portion of the pelvis that enters into thepelvic girdle. because the insurance company asked for aroentgen examination of the pelvis that thefracture was found. Minor fractures areusually without complications while majorfractures are frequently complicated. The complications of fractures of the pel-vis are only a few, but they are very serious,depending upon the location of the fracture.The most common complications are: (I) Ruptures of the membranous urethra.. (2) Laceration—bladder. (3) Injury to large blood vessels. (4) Injury to sacrococcygeal nerves.Rupture of membranous urethra is due to a tear in the triangular ligament. Rupture of Read at the Second Annual Meeting of the Central Section The American Roen tgen Ray Society, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21, 1921. 512 Fractures of the Pelvis the bladder and injury to the blood vessels,especially the external iliac arteries, are
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 3. Case 3. Female, age thirty-eight. She wasthrown from a motor and struck on her hip, frac-turing both pubes; had no complications. orrhage and shock from a lacerated externaliliac artery with a dissecting extravasationof blood under the entire peritoneum. A point that I want to bring out in thesefew illustrations is that one cannot tell fromthe roentgenograms whether the membran-ous urethra or bladder has been injured,and if at all suspicious one should advise thepassing of the catheter. Case i. Male, age forty, fell down an ele-vator shaft a distance of four stories. Sus-tained a fracture of the symphysis, a frac-ture through the right sacroiliac joint and afracture of the lower third of both bones inboth legs. He had no complications with hispelvic fractures. Case 2. Male, age twenty-seven, fell froma bridge two weeks before this examinationw^as made and walked into the hospital. Hehas a fracture of the ascending and descend-ing rami of pubes. No complictions.

Note About Images