We report a case of spontaneous physeal growth arrest of the distal femur in a nine-year-old child with Ewing's sarcoma of the proximal femur treated with chemotherapy and endoprosthetic replacement. Owing to the extent of disuse osteoporosis at the time of surgery, the entire intramedullary canal up to the distal femoral physis was filled with cement. Three years later, the femur remained at i...

The present study proposes an integrated computer-aided approach combining femur surface modeling, fracture evidence recover plate creation, and plate modification in order to conduct a parametric investigation of the design of custom plate for a specific patient. The study allows for improving the design efficiency of specific plates on the patients' femur parameters and the fracture informati...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this case report is to describe the outcome of a patient following fixation of a midshaft femur fracture and an evaluation-based, immediate-weight-bearing approach to rehabilitation. CASE DESCRIPTION The patient was a 28-year-old male manual laborer whose left femur was fractured in a head-on motor vehicle accident. The patient was treated with internal f...

A case control study of a defined population from The Netherlands was performed to evaluate the risk of femur fractures associated with the use of thiazide diuretics. Included were 386 patients hospitalized for femur fractures between 1986 and 1990 who were residents and 45 years of age and older. Per case, one age-, sex-, pharmacy-, and general practitioner-matched control was chosen from the ...

BACKGROUND The anatomical axis of the femur is crucial for determining the correct alignment in corrective osteotomies of the knee, total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and retrograde and antegrade femoral intramedullary nailing (IMN). The aim of this study was to propose the concept of different anatomical axes for the proximal and distal parts of the femur; compare these axes in normally aligned su...

In this study, the histopathological diagnosis and treatment of an intermuscular lipoma were reported in a dog. clinical inspection, there was large mass caudal left femur that animal had difficulty moving. On palpation, solid painful. A decision made to totally extirpate mass, which suspected be tumor. wide skin incision from part femur; separated surrounding tissues by blunt dissection extirp...

Background: There are no published studies on the anthropometry of distal femur in Indian population. Hence results obtained from this study would provide valuable data average dimensions which can serve as guidelines for designing a suitable femoral component total knee prostheses population.
 Methods: After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria 41 dried each side (total 82) unknown a...