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High-resolution CT scan is used to clearly identify the components of the innominate line. Fourteen patients with abnormal innominate lines are then examined and used to illustrate the three pathological processes affecting the innominate line, namely, destruction, hyperostosis and expansion.
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Whelan, M.A., Myung, K.H. & Bergeron, R.T. The innominate line. Neuroradiology 26, 119–122 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339859
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