Femoral length symmetry is assumed when assessing a patient with a dysplastic acetabulum. An unexpected long femur has been observed in some adults with acetabular dysplasia. We undertook a retrospective observation study of 18 adults with unilateral and 11 adults with bilateral acetabular dysplasia. Femoral lengths were assessed using CT measurements. The ipsilateral femur was found to be 5-10...

 Background: A potential specific problem of patellar tendon graft in ACL reconstruction is the possibility of graft-tunnel mismatch which could be more problematic with anatomic ACL reconstruction where the femoral tunnel is placed low on the lateral wall of the lateral femoral condyle. The occasional occurrence of this mismatch raises the question that whether a correlation exists between pat...

Background:Prenatal ultrasound plays an important role in the early and accurate evaluation of the congenital skeletal and non-skeletal abnormalities of the fetus and is effective in predicting pregnancy outcomes. Congenital femoral deficiency (CFD) is a rare complicated and non-hereditary anomaly that includes the hypoplasia of a portion of the femoral bone with shortening the lower limb. Cas...

The most commonly used proximal femoral fracture measures for predicting femur neck and intratrochanteric fractures are femoral axis length (FAL), hip axis length (HAL) and the derived Q angle measure (neck-shaft angle). The listed measures only consider the relationship between the diaphysis and the femoral neck but not also between the femoral head and neck. These measures assume the femoral ...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and reconstruction in the skeletally immature patient are becoming more common. The purpose of this study was to develop a reproducible anatomic ACL reconstruction technique, based on intra-articular and extra-articular landmarks, that reliably produces a femoral tunnel of adequate length and diameter while avoiding the distal femoral physis. ...

There is increasing evidence that proximal femoral geometry has an important role in the aetiology of hip fractures. We performed a simple radiological study to investigate the relationship between proximal femoral geometry and intracapsular and extracapsular fractures of the proximal femur. Measurements of proximal femoral geometry were made on pelvic radiographs on the contralateral hip of 50...

Background: Studies have shown that there are striking variations in knee morphology between Asian and Western population. However, most of the existing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) implants are designed to suit the anatomy of Western population. Our study investigated anthropometry of Indian arthritic knees and compared them to international ethnic groups. Methods: Computed tomography was use...