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Pelvis, fractured

GC.5711

Pelvis, with the fifth lumbar vertebra, showing a comminuted. fracture of the left os innominatum. From a male aged 62 years, an electrician, who fell from the roof of a hail to the ground a distance of 30 feet. By striking the scaffolding in his fall he fractured the right side of his skull (l.(l).B.41.),turned over and landed on the ground on his left hip driving the head of the left femur through the acetabulum. He survived the injury five days, death being due to basal meningitis. The non-articular portion of the acetabulum is comminuted and fissures have passed through the articular portion superiorly to the ilium, posteriorly to just above the ischial spine and anteriorly to comminute the body and separate it from the superior ramus of the pubis. The superior half of the ala of the ilium is broken off by a fissure which extends from the anterior inferior iliac spine to the iliac crest at the junction of its posterior with its middle third. The inferior ramus of the ischium is broken from the tuberosity and anteriorly at its junction with the inferior ramus of the pubis which is also comminuted. This is a fracture of the iliac crest without involvement of the pelvic ring, resulting from a direct injury

Twentieth century