Your colleague sees a pelvic radiograph you have just taken of a patient and comments that your patient must have been a female. Provide three or more characteristics of the female pelvis to support how your colleague recognized the sex of your patient
from her radiograph.
What will be an ideal response?
Since your colleague determined that she saw the radiograph of a female patient, she must have picked up one or more of these feminine characteristics: 1 ) a wider greater pelvis, with anterior superior iliac spines farther apart, and with flared iliac crests; 2 ) a wider sacrum; 3 ) a wider and more oval pelvic inlet; 4 ) acetabula are wider and pointed more anteriorly; 5 ) a wider pubic arch (between 90°-100°); 6 ) ischial tuberosities tend to point laterally.
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