Percutaneous Sacroiliac Joint Fixation in Sacroiliac Instability.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- MANFRÉ, LUIGI
- Source
- Interventional Neuroradiology. Sep/Oct2014, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p621-625. 5p.
- Subject
- *SACROILIAC joint
*DISEASE prevalence
*SURGERY
*FRACTURE fixation
*COMPUTED tomography
- Language
- ISSN
- 1591-0199
The prevalence of sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) disease as a cause of LBP is considered to range from 21% to 25%. Nevertheless, SIJ instability is frequently underestimated. Although conventional surgery has been used for several years in an attempt to stabilize the SIJ, a new percutaneous system has been proposed for articular fusion. Recently a new "one-step" fixation procedure has been proposed. We describe the case of a patient with painful SIJ instability treated with a fully CT-guided technique in simple analogue sedation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]