The Sacro-femoral-pubic Angle Is Unreliable to Estimate Pelvic Tilt: A Meta-analysis

• Published in: Clinical orthopaedics and related research Vol. 481; no. 10; pp. 1928 - 1936
• Main Authors: Chai, Yuan, Boudali, A. Mounir, Khadra, Sam, Walter, William L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer 01.10.2023; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Bone surgery; Clinical Research; Correlation analysis; Female; Femur; Femur - diagnostic imaging; Humans; Male; Meta-analysis; Patients; Pelvis - diagnostic imaging; Pubic Bone; Radiography; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Sacrum; Sensitivity analysis; Sex; Therapeutic applications; Young Adult

The accurate measurement of pelvic tilt is critical in hip and spine surgery. A sagittal pelvic radiograph is most often used to measure pelvic tilt, but this radiograph is not always routinely obtained and does not always allow the measurement of pelvic tilt because of problems with image quality o...