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Table 2 .Features of the four types of female pelvis<br />

Features Gaynacoid Android Antropaid Platypelloid<br />

Brim Round Heart shaped Long oval Kidney<br />

shaped<br />

Fore- pelvis Genrous Narrow narrowed Wide<br />

Side walls Straight convergent divergent Divergent<br />

isctial spines Blunt Prominent blunt Blunt<br />

sciatic notch Rounded Narrow wide Wide<br />

sub- pubic angle 90 o < 90 o >90 o >90 o<br />

Incidence 50% 20% 25% 5%<br />

Figure 3 Types of female pelvis (Alan H. Decherney l.<br />

pemoll, 1994)<br />

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