Background: Femur is a long bone that measures gestational age and contributes to human height weight, but can also be affected by growth retardation or skeletal abnormalities. Objective: To compare the effect of femur length on fetus using ultrasonography. Methods: The research was four-month crossectional study carried out in private hospital Tehsil Kharian, District Gujrat, Pakistan. Data ob...

Over the past two centuries there have been documented secular changes in stature, weight, body proportions, and skeletal maturation rates in the United States. These changes along with a more sedentary lifestyle are likely reflected in femur morphology. Here we examine secular changes in diaphyseal cross-sectional size, shape, area, robusticity, and rigidity at midshaft and subtrochanteric of ...

BACKGROUND The femur has a complex shape with marked individual differences. The aim of our study was to investigate the anatomy of the femur in normal subjects using computed tomography imaging with the aim of building a digital database of human femoral anatomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied age- and sex-related variation in the shape of the femur in 169 normal subjects (80 men and 89 wom...

The aim of this study was to look for any secular trend in the stature of Balkan populations from the time of World War II (1939-1945) to the Balkans War (1991-1995). The research was based on the examination of exhumed skeletons of 202 men killed in World War II in the area of the Republic of Slovenia, and 243 men killed in the Bosnian War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The length measurements of ...

Demonstration of a size-based influence on relative biomechanical neck length of the femur predicts relatively longer necks for smaller femurs. Fossil hominids through the middle Pleistocene appear to have relatively longer femur necks than expected from this relation, excepting the two small australopithecine females. I t is suggested that this variation results from smaller crania a t birth i...

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...