Sacral Curvature in Addition to Sacral Ratio to Assess Sacral Development and the Association With the Type of Anorectal Malformations

• Main Authors: Zhen Chen (Author), Lingling Zheng (Author), Minzhong Zhang (Author), Jie Zhang (Author), Ruixue Kong (Author), Yunpei Chen (Author), Zijian Liang (Author), Marc A. Levitt (Author), Chin-Hung Wei (Author), Yong Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Sacral ratio (SR) is currently the only measurement to quantitatively evaluate sacral development in patients with anorectal malformations (ARM). This study proposes sacral curvature (SC) as a new indicator to qualitatively assess the sacrum and hypothesizes that sacral development, bo...