. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Group 4. Unilateral. Girl, aged 21, treated for scoli-osis five years ago for which she wore a plaster the time of admission she had complained of painin the sacral region for several weeks which was moremarked on the right side but it radiated to both hips. The radiogram shows a very large right fifth lumbartransverse process which is articulated to the sacrumby a true joint. In these joints I find signs of space between the lateral process and the sacrumseems to be reduced. Slight degrees of
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Group 4. Unilateral. Girl, aged 21, treated for scoli-osis five years ago for which she wore a plaster the time of admission she had complained of painin the sacral region for several weeks which was moremarked on the right side but it radiated to both hips. The radiogram shows a very large right fifth lumbartransverse process which is articulated to the sacrumby a true joint. In these joints I find signs of space between the lateral process and the sacrumseems to be reduced. Slight degrees of arthritis are alsodemonstrable in both sacro iliac joints, slightly morepronounced in the Grolp 4. Bilateral. A woman aged 32 years who com-plains of pain of two weeks duration in the lumbo-sacral region. Only slight pain is elicited by pressureover the sacro-iliac articulations. There is also slightlimitation of all movements. Hyper-e.\tention of thelumbar spine causes pain radiating to the hips. The radiogram shows sacralization of both fifthlumbar transverse processes by true joints. Signs of aslight degree of arthritis can be seen at the lowerborder of the left sacro-iliac joint. Foiirlli Groiil).- Tliis grotij) would in-clude the malformation of one or both fifthlumlDar transverse processes which areconsiderably larger than normal and unitedwith the upper part of the sacrum by a truejoint. In fifty plates showing malformationsof the fifth lumbar transverse processes, wehave found thirteen that mav be classified them are male patients. They came to theHospital complaining of pain of a durationextending from a few days to severalyears; the period of their life when the
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