(1) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(5) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(6) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
(7) Material effects included lower %ash (approximately 2%) in the femora and tibiae as well as in the humeri of suspended mice compared to controls.
(8) I have demonstrated on the femora of rabbits that the consequence of progressive dynamization versus the current unchanging stability of fracture fixation was a more rapid healing.
(9) We examined both femora, both tibiae, and the fourth lumbar vertebra by computed x-ray densitometry on day 7 postoperatively.
(10) The intact femora were first incubated with collagenase to obtain periosteal cells.
(11) Two different assays were used: (1) an in vitro clonogenic assay for fibroblast precursor cells (CFU-F) and (2) subcutaneous grafting of femora or spleens.
(12) This study indicates that rigid intramedullary nails cause strain shielding at the anterior, mid-diaphyseal surface of rat femora 12 weeks after insertion.
(13) Twenty-two canine femora were injected with PMMA cement at pressures varying between 0.2 and 1.3 MPa.
(14) The femora were tested in torsion, bending, and axial loading to failure.
(15) Three femoral components (one cemented and one uncemented straight-stem Muller and one uncemented Anatomic Medullary Locking) were placed into cadaveric or commercially available plastic femora to establish that rotation of the femur can simulate changes in femoral component alignment on the anteroposterior radiograph.
(16) Bone density and mineral content of the femora were significantly decreased in ovariectomized mice compared with intact control animals.
(17) After insertion of Newman's pins, Smith-Petersen nails and compression hip screws into human cadaveric proximal femora, the area of trabecular damage was measured.
(18) The femoral anteversion in 20 adult dried femora and 40 femora in 20 children was measured by the Magilligan method, the authors' method and the conventional CT method.
(19) There were 13 breakages in the locking nails in femora and none in tibiae.
(20) A partial transverse osteotomy of the midshaft of both femora was then performed.
Femoral
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) Three of the patients had had fractures of the femoral neck.
(3) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
(4) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(5) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(6) In 17 patients with femoral neck fractures who were between 15 and 40 years old the incidence of aseptic necrosis in patients followed more than 2 years was 18.7 per cent.
(7) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(8) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(9) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
(10) Early postoperative problems following aorto-ilio-femoral thrombendarterectomy include occlusion, bleeding and emboli.
(11) Femoral angiograms were made in 21 cadavers under simulated clinical conditions, with a pressurized radiopaque casting material.
(12) Since 1984, 16 children (mean age 10.3 years) have had stabilization of their femoral shaft fractures by external fixation (Monofixateur) in the Trauma Department of the Hannover Medical School.
(13) Time until death, total volume of air infused, femoral arterial pressure, central venous pressure, and ECG (Lead II) were recorded.
(14) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(15) In previous reports, bone grafting of the posterior defect in the femoral neck through an open approach has achieved good results.
(16) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(17) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(18) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(19) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(20) 93 knees in 74 patients between 9 and 20 years of age were operated because of patello-femoral instability.