OKC Thunder big man Chet Holmgren suffered a right iliac wing fracture on Sunday. Here's an explanation of the injury.

Currently, autogenous bone grafting is a necessary part of the treatment of various orthopaedic conditions. Obtaining bone from the iliac crest can be associated with significant morbidity.

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 ...

It's a massive loss for the Thunder, which is already plagued with injuries at center. An iliac wing fracture occurs in the upper part of the ilium bone in the pelvis. It's also known as a Duverney ...

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 ...

Welcome to Smallville 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 ...

Very light and sponge-like in texture, the ethmoid bone is one of the most complex bones of the face. The ethmoid bone has four main parts. The ethmoidal labyrinths consist of two hollow blocks of ...

In addition, middle ear infections can spread to this bone. The temporal bone is composed of five parts: the squama, the petrous, mastoid, and tympanic parts, as well as the styloid process. These ...

Per the Thunder, Chet Holmgren suffered a right iliac wing fracture on Sunday night in a 127-116 loss to the Warriors. He’s ...

Although Holmgren’s recent injury has been characterized as a hip fracture, and that’s technically correct, it’s not the whole story. He broke a bone called the iliac crest. If you look at a skeleton ...