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Fragility fractures of the sacrum occur in elderly patients with severe loss of sacral bone mass

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-018-2938-5

Published Online: 2018-04-26

Published Print: 2018-07

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Authors

Wagner, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4455-1018
Hofmann, Alexander

Kamer, Lukas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8173-4361
Sawaguchi, Takeshi

Richards, R. Geoff https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7778-2480
Noser, Hansrudi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-4416
Gruszka, Dominik https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8360-9441
Rommens, Pol M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5175-3876
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Depuy Synthes

AO Foundation (AO TK Pelvic Expert Group)
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Article History

Received: 31 December 2017

First Online: 26 April 2018

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The authors do not have any further conflicts of interests.

: The anonymous use of CT data was approved by local ethics committee (Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany) for the group with fractured sacra. The non-fractured sacra were obtained from the CT database of the AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland, registered at the “Eidgenössischer Öffentlichkeits- und Datenschutzbeauftragter”, Bern, Switzerland. All patients agreed to anonymous research use of their CT data.