OKC Thunder big man Chet Holmgren suffered a right iliac wing fracture on Sunday. Here's an explanation of the injury.
An iliac wing fracture occurs in the upper part of the ilium bone in the pelvis. It's also known as a Duverney fracture, named after French surgeon Joseph Guichard Duverney's first description of ...
Injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (Bernhardt's syndrome) or meralgia paresthetica occurs after harvest of the bone from the anterior iliac crest. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is ...
Autogenous bone grafting is often done in orthopaedic surgery for a variety of conditions. The iliac crest is currently the most common donor site for obtaining autogenous bone graft. We searched ...