DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2021.v09i01.025

Pages: 128-131

Introduction: Acetabular angle is one of the most important osteometric measurements. It has very wide implications in clinical and medico legal practice. Objectives: to determine the acetabular angle in Sudanese population, to assess the sex influence, to compare these results with international results. Patients and Methods: the study was a prospective, descriptive, cross-sectional hospital based study, conducted at Omdurman Teaching Hospital during the period from March to June 2015, A total coverage of all patients who came for plain pelvic x -ray or IVU during this period were taken as study targets. Result: The mean of acetabular angle in males was (37.3) and in females was (35.2) with significant statistical difference. The maximum angle observed in male was 42 with 29 was the minimum. In females the maximum angle was 38 and 29 was the minimum. Conclusion: The anatomical difference in this study was significant. Sex influences geometrical measurements of the acetabulum; the male’s angles are greater than that of females. In comparing the acetabular angle of both sexes in Sudanese subjects with others there was a high statistical significant racial variation.