OBJECTIVES: To report experience with transverse sacral @entity174 , an uncommon @entity130 frequently associated with @entity51 , and to perform a meta-analysis of the literature in order to define the role of decompression for the management of sacral @entity174 . DESIGN: A review of 7 cases. SETTING: A university-affiliated tertiary care centre. @entity1 : Seven @entity1 with transverse @entity174 of the sacrum. The mean follow-up was 13 months. INTERVENTIONS: A review of the clinical data and a search of the literature for studies that reported on 4 or more @entity1 with a transverse sacral @entity174 . MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mechanism of @entity51 and its management. RESULTS: The most common mechanism in the 7 study @entity1 was a fall from a height. Six @entity1 had @entity51 , mostly in the form of bowel or bladder disturbance. Five of these were treated with surgical decompression, and 4 of them had an improvement in neurologic function. The 7 original studies from the literature dealt with a total of 55 @entity1 . As in the study @entity1 , falls from a height and motor vehicle accidents predominated as the mechanisms of @entity130 . In contrast to @entity1 in this study, 20 of 48 @entity1 in the literature review with @entity51 were treated conservatively. CONCLUSIONS: The outcomes in this study are similar to those reported in the literature. The place of surgical decompression for @entity1 with @entity51 cannot be clearly determined from the evidence currently available.

Transverse sacral XXXX : case series and literature review.

@entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['injury'] @entity51 :: ('MESH:D009461', 'Disease') :: ['neurologic deficit', 'injury, type of neurologic deficit', 'neurologic deficits'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'PATIENTS'] @entity174 :: ('MESH:D050723', 'Disease') :: ['fractures', 'fracture']
@entity174 :: (MESH:D050723,Disease) :: ['fractures']
