The vastus medialis is located in front of the thigh. The muscle originates at a ridge at the upper part of the femur (thigh bone) just below where the ball socket fits into the hip joint. From there, ...

Patients over 10 years old should have their bone age and growth potential evaluated ... Roughly one third of varus deformities may be attributed to the distal femur (26), and the incidence is high ...

The following is a summary of “Association between A body shape index and bone mineral density in middle-aged and elderly adults: a retrospective analysis of NHANES 2005–2018,” published in the April ...

A spade-shaped bone that is formed by the fusion of 5 originally separate ... Most pelvic fractures are caused by direct hits or by a hit through the thighbone (femur). They often occur due to motor ...

A medial collateral ligament (MCL) tear affects the inside of the knee. The tough MCL ligament fibers that connect the end of the femur (thigh bone) and the top of the tibia (shin bone) can tear, ...

However, the bone morphology of the distal third of the femur may differ in ... scans in a single section containing the topographies of the medial and lateral epicondyles and posterior femoral ...

They also noted that denser bone that formed the hip joint, above the femur, experienced very little bone loss, strongly suggesting that the bone loss in the femur was most likely due to the ...

Left main coronary artery. This artery sends blood to the left side of the heart muscle. This includes the left ventricle and left atrium. It divides into these branches: Left anterior descending ...

TABLE 2. Peak values of maximum and minimum principal stress of three implant models for fixing femoral neck fracture (MPa). Additionally, the peak von Mises stress for both bone and internal fixation ...

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