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Background and purpose — Fractures of the pelvis and femur are serious and potentially lethal injuries affecting primarily older, but also younger individuals.
Natalie Lundin +5 more
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Atypical Femur Fracture Risk versus Fragility Fracture Prevention with Bisphosphonates.
BACKGROUND Bisphosphonates are effective in reducing hip and osteoporotic fractures. However, concerns about atypical femur fractures have contributed to substantially decreased bisphosphonate use, and the incidence of hip fractures may be increasing ...
D. Black +7 more
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Purpose Megaprosthesis or endoprosthetic replacement of the proximal and distal femur is a well-established modality for treatment of tumors. The indications for megaprosthesis have been expanded to the treatment of some non-neoplastic conditions of the ...
Raju Vaishya, S. Thapa, A. Vaish
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Segmentation of the Proximal Femur from MR Images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been proposed as a complimentary method to measure bone quality and assess fracture risk. However, manual segmentation of MR images of bone is time-consuming, limiting the use of MRI measurements in the clinical ...
C. Deniz +5 more
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Proximal femur anatomy-implant geometry discrepancies
Objectives: Due to ongoing concern about femur anatomy-implant mismatches, this cross-sectional study aimed to create a geometric femur profile and used it to identify and quantify possible mismatches between femur anatomy and cephalomedullary nail ...
Cornelissen Andries Johannes +3 more
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Intramedullary fixation of femur fractures in children and adolescents with flexible rods [PDF]
Objective: to evaluate the surgical treatment results using intramedullary retrograde Ender nails in isolated unilateral femur fractures. Methods: the authors performed a retrospective study of 31 patients (32 femurs), 22 (71%) males and 9 (29%) females ...
Aoyagui, Alexandre Yoiti +6 more
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Objetivou-se determinar aspectos bioquímicos, morfométricos e biomecânicos dos fêmures de frangos de corte. Utilizaram-se 600 pintos de 1 dia de idade, machos e fêmeas, de três híbridos (Hb1 e Hb2 - UFV e Hb3 - comercial).
Anderson de Almeida Barbosa +5 more
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Quantitative ultrasound of the calcaneus, bone densitometry and vertebral morphometry in men over the age of 60 years [PDF]
Objetivos: Comparar a ultrassonometria do calcâneo com a densitometria óssea na avaliação de fraturas vertebrais morfométricas em homens acima de 60 anos.
Barra, Filipe Ramos +4 more
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Objetivou-se avaliar as características ósseas de frangos de corte tratados com diferentes níveis de balanço eletrolítico (BE) na ração. Foram criados 936 pintos de corte Cobb de 1 dia de idade distribuídos em delineamento de blocos ao acaso, com seis ...
Elisa Sialino Müller +4 more
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2008 official positions of the Brazilian Society for Clinical Densitometry - SBDens [PDF]
With the evolution of bone densitometry, differences in technologies, acquisition techniques, reference databases, reporting methods, diagnostic criteria and terminology have developed and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD ...
Albergaria, Ben-Hur +8 more
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