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✔✔sacroiliac joint - ✔✔where the right and left iliac bones articulate posteriorly with the
sacrum
✔✔Posterior Superior Iliac Spine (PSIS) - ✔✔
✔✔The 2 important positioning landmarks of the ilium? - ✔✔ASIS
Iliac crest
✔✔What is the ischium divided into? - ✔✔body and ramus
✔✔ischial tuberosity - ✔✔
✔✔ramus of ischium - ✔✔
✔✔ischial spine - ✔✔
✔✔greater sciatic notch of ischium - ✔✔
✔✔lesser sciatic notch of ischium - ✔✔
✔✔what bears most of the weight of the body when you are sitting? - ✔✔ischial
tuberositys
✔✔Superior ramus of pubis - ✔✔
✔✔pubic symphysis - ✔✔ampiarthrodial joint
✔✔Largest foramen in the body - ✔✔obturator foramen
✔✔Brim of pelvis - ✔✔
✔✔greater (false) pelvis - ✔✔
✔✔lesser (true) pelvis - ✔✔
✔✔what does the true pelvis form? - ✔✔Birth Canal
✔✔inlet of true pelvis - ✔✔
✔✔Outlet of True pelvis - ✔✔
, ✔✔female vs male pelvis - ✔✔Female: wider, 80-85 degree pubis arch
Male: narrow, deeper 50-60 pubis arch
✔✔AP Hip (Unilateral) - ✔✔CR 4 inches from ASIS, 2 inches medial (perpendicular to
femoral neck)-leg internally rotted 15-20 degrees
✔✔What should be in profile for an AP Hip projection? - ✔✔greater trochanter, femoral
neck-lesser trochanter not seen
✔✔Axiolateral Inferosuperior Projection-Trauma - ✔✔Danelius-Miller Method
✔✔Dani-Miller - ✔✔CR perpendicular to femoral neck (mid femur)IR perpendicular to
CRInternally rotate leg 15-20 if possibleGridCross table, horizontal beam
✔✔Modified Cleaves Method-Hip & Proximal Femur - ✔✔Unilateral Frog-leg Projection
(Mediolateral)
✔✔Frog-leg - ✔✔CR 4in down from ASIS, 2 in medial (into crease)Leg abducted 45
degrees
✔✔what projection would you use if affected hip can not be moved and a lateral view is
needed for a fracture? - ✔✔Danelius-Miller-Axiolateral Inferosuperior
✔✔what projection would you use to get a lateral view of the hip joint for a non-
traumatic injury? - ✔✔Modified cleaves method-Unilateral Frog-leg Projection
✔✔Clements-Nakayama - ✔✔Patient supine with affected side near edge of table. Legs
fully extended, neutral positionIR 2in below level of tableIR angled 15 degrees
(perpendicular to CR)GridCR centered to femoral neckCR angled 15-20 posteriorly
✔✔what projection would you use for a possible hip fracture when the patient has
limited movement? - ✔✔Modified Axiolateral Inferiorsuperior-Clements-Nakayama
✔✔AP Pelvis (Bilateral Hips) - ✔✔CR 2 in below ASIS, centered in middleinternally
rotate legs 15-20 degrees-lesser trochanter not visible-light field above iliac crest
✔✔AP Bilateral Frog-Leg Projection-Pelvis - ✔✔Modified Cleaves Method
✔✔What projection would you use to look for dysplasis of the hip (congenital hip
dislocation)? - ✔✔Ap bilateral frog-leg