The very first fossils of this species -- found by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at Hadar in 1973 -- were the parts of ... fan-shaped bones on either side, called the iliac blades, curve ...

Injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (Bernhardt's syndrome) or meralgia paresthetica occurs after harvest of the bone from the anterior iliac crest. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is ...

Cosmetic deformities after iliac crest bone grafting are usually related to removal of the superior surface of the ilium or to the development of an unsatisfactory scar. A number of recent ...