In order to investigate the potential of thermal analysis for the determination of post-mortem age, rib bone specimens were collected from the remains of a number of slaughtered pigs that were allowed to decompose in the Australian bush in a controlled site under a range of conditions for time periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The bone specimens were cut in crosssection with the compact bone c...

Transosseous repair of the rotator cuff has been shown to recreate the anatomic rotator cuff footprint in a secure and cost-efficient manner. However, the potential for sutures cutting through bone remains a concern with this strategy. Devices have been used successfully during open transosseous rotator cuff repair to augment the bone tunnels, potentially avoiding suture cut-out through the wea...

Many studies have shown that computer navigation in total knee arthroplasty aids the surgeon to place the prosthesis in a more accurate overall alignment. Bony resection creates the flexion and extension gaps; important in balancing the knee and implant selection in TKR. The computer plans the bone cuts but has variables that it cannot control: the surgeon, the saw blade thickness and oscillati...

Abstract Artificial intelligence algorithms have recently been applied to taphonomic questions with great success, outperforming previous methods of bone surface modification (BSM) identification. Following these new developments, here we try different deep learning model architectures, optimizers and activation functions assess if it is possible identify a stone tool’s raw material simply by l...

This experiment assessed the ability of an on-line dual energy x-ray absorptiometer (DEXA) installed at a commercial abattoir to determine cut weights in lamb carcases chain-speed. 200 were scanned using DEXA that was trained predict computed tomography determined proportions fat, lean, and bone. Models then hot carcase weight and, fat% value or GR tissue depth weight. Results from validation t...

Introduction Poor bone quality due to osteoporosis is an increasing problem in dorsal transpedicular instrumentation of the aging spine. As the number of patients and indications are increasing, complications as screw loosening, cut-out, migration and loss of reduction are more and more observed [1,2]. These complications can be avoided to a large degree by choosing appropriate implant design a...

background: to determine the efficacy of three different antiseptic solutions (control group (i), antibiotic solution – neomycin and polymyxin (ii), chlorhexidine 0.4% (iii), and povidone – iodine 10% (iv)) in disinfecting contaminated bone fragments. methods: under sterile conditions, the femora of 12 rabbits were removed and cut into six millimeter pieces. a total of 200 bone specimens were o...

BACKGROUND We previously proposed the Predictive Index for Osteoporosis as a new index to identify men who require bone mineral density measurement. However, the previous study had limitations such as a single-center design and small sample size. Here, we evaluated the usefulness of the Predictive Index for Osteoporosis using the nationally representative data of the Korea National Health and N...

BACKGROUND Due to the potential risk of iron supplementation in iron replete children, it is important to properly identify children who may require iron supplementation. However, assessment of the iron status has proven to be difficult, especially in children living in areas with high infection pressure (including malaria). AIMS AND METHODS Biochemical iron markers were compared to bone marr...