Coccygeal Morphology on Multislice Computed Tomography in a Tertiary Hospital in India

Asian Spine Journal
Venkatraman IndiranPrabakaran Maduraimuthu

Abstract

A retrospective, cross-sectional study of 213 patients who presented for abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans to assess coccygeal morphology in the Indian population. There have been relatively few studies of coccygeal morphology in the normal population and none in the Indian population. We aimed to estimate coccygeal morphometric parameters in the Indian population. Coccygeal morphology has been studied in European, American, Korean, and Egyptian populations, with few differences in morphology among populations. A retrospective analysis of 213 abdominal CT scans (114 males and 99 females; age, 7-88 years; mean age, 47.3 years) was performed to evaluate the number of coccygeal segments, coccyx type, sacrococcygeal and intercoccygeal fusion and subluxation, coccygeal spicules, sacrococcygeal straight length, and sacrococcygeal and intercoccygeal curvature angles. Results were analyzed for differences in morphology with respect to sex and coccyx type. Types I and II coccyx were the most common. Most subjects had four coccygeal vertebrae; 93 subjects (43.66%) had partial or complete sacrococcygeal fusion. Intercoccygeal fusion was common, occurring in 193 subjects. Eighteen subjects had coccygeal spicules. The mean coccygeal ...Continue Reading

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