Scientific Reports, 2023 This study explored the relationship between femoral lateralization and femoral neck-shaft angle after intramedullary nail (IM) fixation for per trochanteric fractures. 70 patients (AO/OTA 31A1-2) were investigated. Anteroposterior (AP) and lateral X-ray
Long Fang +6 more
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Surgical Treatments for Femoral Shaft Fractures: A Narrative Review [PDF]
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal, 2023 Femoral shaft fractures are increasingly common due to various traumatic injuries. Intramedullary nail (IMN) is considered the gold standard treatment for these fractures, but comorbidities often require thorough trauma life support and intensive care ...
Fu BS, Zheng ZH
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Adult traumatic femoral shaft fractures: A review of the literature
Ibom Medical Journal, 2012 Background: Fractures of the shaft of the femur are common. Injuries leading to femoral shaft fractures are equally common. The femur presents itself to these injuries more than any other bone in the body.
Dim EM, Ugbeye ME, Ugwoegbulem OA
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Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2020 Objective To explore the differences in measurement result of femoral neck shaft angle between anteroposterior X-ray film and 3-dimensional CT reconstruction image, and investigate the main related factors that lead to the differences.
LIU Liming +5 more
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]
, 2017 The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha +21 more
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Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part II—a new approach to inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct tetrapod vertebrates [PDF]
, 2018 This paper is the second of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous bone in the main hindlimb bones of theropod dinosaurs, and uses cancellous bone architectural patterns to infer locomotor biomechanics in extinct non-avian ...
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The Libyan civil conflict : selected case series of orthopaedic trauma managed in Malta in 2014 [PDF]
, 2015 Aim: The purpose of this series of cases was to analyse our management of orthopaedic trauma casualties in the Libyan civil war crisis in the European summer of 2014. We looked at both damage control orthopaedics and for case variety of war trauma at a
Borg, Joseph N. +3 more
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Pleistocene hominins as a resource for carnivores. A c. 500,000-year-old human femur bearing tooth-marks in North Africa (Thomas Quarry I, Morocco) [PDF]
, 2016 In many Middle Pleistocene sites, the co-occurrence of hominins with carnivores, who both contributed to faunal accumulations, suggests competition for resources as well as for living spaces.
Abderrahim, Mohib +6 more
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Relationship of lower limb geometrics with femorotibial osteoarthritis in the toei cohort
Scientific Reports, 2022 Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease of joints that is more common in females than in males. It is characterized by severe knee degeneration, damaged cartilage and appearance of osteophytes.
Dung Huu Tran +2 more
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Can we improve the prediction of hip fracture by assessing bone structure using shape and appearance modelling? [PDF]
, 2012 Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Peer ...
Alesci, S. +6 more
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