Technique & nuances of an S-2 alar iliac screw for lumbosacral fixation ...

Junichi Ohya, MD,1 Todd D. Vogel, MD,1 Sanjay S. Dhall, MD,1 Sigurd Berven, MD,2 and Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD1

Departments of 1Neurological Surgery and 2Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California

S-2 alar iliac (S2AI) screw fixation has recently been acknowledged as a helpful strategy for pelvic fixation. The authors demonstrate 2 cases where S2AI fixation was suggested: one case was a sacral insufficiency fracture following a long-segment combination in a client with a transitional S-1 vertebra; the other case involved pseudarthrosis following lumbosacral fixation.

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