YIN Ganghui,JIN Dadi,CHEN Fangyao.Sacral pelvic angle: a new pelvic anatomical parameter for assessing spino-pelvic sagittal balance[J].Chinese Journal of Spine and Spinal Cord,2014,(8):704-709.
Sacral pelvic angle: a new pelvic anatomical parameter for assessing spino-pelvic sagittal balance
Received:April 20, 2014  Revised:July 25, 2014
English Keywords:Sacral pelvic angle  Spine  Pelvis  Sagittal balance
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YIN Ganghui Department of Orthopaedics, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southen Medical University,Guangzhou, 510630, China 
JIN Dadi 南方医科大学第三附属医院骨科 510630 广州市 
CHEN Fangyao 南方医科大学公共卫生与热带医学学院生物统计学系 510525 广州市 
陈克冰  
张忠民  
黎庆初  
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  【Abstract】 Objectives: To introduce a new spine-pelvic parameter, sacral pelvic angle(SPA), and to investigate the geometrical value of SPA and to evaluate its correlation, reliability and reproducibility compared with other parametres. Methods: SPA was defined as the angle between PR line and the line perpendicular to the sacral endplate. The relationship of SPA with pelvic angle(PA) and sacral slope(SS) was deduced with geometric method. Whole spine, standing radiographs of 111 Chinese adult volunteers were taken. Cobb angle and pelvic radius technique were adopted to measure the spino-pelvic sagittal parameters including SPA, thoracic kyphosis(TK), thoracolumbar kyphosis(TLK), lumbar lordosis(LL), SS, pelvic tilt(PT), pelvic incidence(PI), sagittal vertical axis(SVA), spino-sacral angle(SSA), PA, pelvic morphology(PR-S1) and total lumbopelvic lordosis(PR-T12). The correlations among all parameters were analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis. 80 radiographs were randomly chosen for SPA measurement by two independent spine surgeons for 5 times at first and another 5 times one month later. Coefficient of variation(CV) was calculated to evaluate the stability of SPA, and introclass correlation coefficient(ICC) was used to reflect the consistency of measurements by the same observer and between the two observers. Results: Geometric deduction confirmed that SPA=PA+SS=90°-PR-S1. There were statistically significant positive correlations of SPA with PI, PR-S1, PA, PT, SS, SSA(r=0.994, 1.000, 0.482, 0.538, 0.699, 0.465, P<0.05). Negative correlation was presented between SPA and LL(r=-0.532, P<0.05). CV of SPA was 0.0023±0.02 and 0.0085±0.053 for the twice mearurement. ICC between observers was 0.99(P<0.01) and 0.97(P<0.01), and ICC between twice measurements was 0.99(P<0.01). Conclusions: SPA is an anatomical parameter with good reliability and reproducibility. SPA=PA+SS. The correlation of SPA with other parametres was similar to that of PI with other parametres, which can be adopted to assess the spino-pelvic sagittal balance.
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