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Morphometry of Adult Human Femur


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1 Dept. of Anatomy, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
     

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Femur is the long bone studied and analysed for its importance in medico legal cases and forensic identification of an individual. The knowledge of normal anatomical features and morphometry of femur are pre-requisites for complete understanding of mechanics of hip and knee joint and diseases of these joints as well. Increased femoral anteversion can cause failure of treatment of congenital dislocation of hip (Morscher 1967) and if not appropriately cared for in the prosthesis then even in treatment of total hip replacement. This fact makes the morphometry of femur important not just for orthopaedicians but also radiologists who use neck shaft angle for diagnosis and managing hip diseases. The neck shaft angle is increased in congenital subluxation and dislocation of hip, idiopathic scoliosis, perthe's disease and slipped capital femoral epiphysis. For The now gold standard treatment of osteoarthritis and fracture neck of femur in elderly, total hip replacement, the normal morphometry of the upper end of femur like head diameter, neck shaft angle and angle of anteversion must be precisely known. Hence the extensive morphometric study on femur was undertaken by us the observations of which are given under.

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Ashok Kumar Garg
Dept. of Anatomy, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Neerja Garg
Dept. of Anatomy, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Anu Garg
Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Femur is the long bone studied and analysed for its importance in medico legal cases and forensic identification of an individual. The knowledge of normal anatomical features and morphometry of femur are pre-requisites for complete understanding of mechanics of hip and knee joint and diseases of these joints as well. Increased femoral anteversion can cause failure of treatment of congenital dislocation of hip (Morscher 1967) and if not appropriately cared for in the prosthesis then even in treatment of total hip replacement. This fact makes the morphometry of femur important not just for orthopaedicians but also radiologists who use neck shaft angle for diagnosis and managing hip diseases. The neck shaft angle is increased in congenital subluxation and dislocation of hip, idiopathic scoliosis, perthe's disease and slipped capital femoral epiphysis. For The now gold standard treatment of osteoarthritis and fracture neck of femur in elderly, total hip replacement, the normal morphometry of the upper end of femur like head diameter, neck shaft angle and angle of anteversion must be precisely known. Hence the extensive morphometric study on femur was undertaken by us the observations of which are given under.

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