Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018
Morphometric study of neck of Adult femur.
Saima Rashid, Manmeet Kour, Uzma Rasool, Sangeeta Gupta, Afshan Salim
Abstract :
Introduction:Skeleton plays a significant role in various sciences like medicine, forensic sciences, anthropology etc. and also in estimation of sex, age, race and stature of an individual.The knowledge about different diameters of head and neck of femur is essential in orthopaedic surgery in prosthesis and nail application, for radiological practice in identifying pathology of bone and also for determining age. Method:The present study was conducted on 80 dry femur bones of unknown age and sex, which were obtained from Department of Anatomy, GMC Jammu. Circumference of femoral neck,length of femoral neck,vertical diameter of femoral neck, andtransverse diameter of femoral neck were measured.Result:Mean circumference of neck of right and left femur bones is 10.29 (SD