Radiographic study on the anatomical characteristics of the proximal femur in Brazilian adults

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the geometry of the femur in the Brazilian population by means of a radiographic study and to correlate the values with regard to sex and right/left side.METHODS: Five hundred anteroposterior radiographs of the pelvis of skeletally mature patients (250 of each sex) who did no...

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Main Authors: Tércio Henrique Soares de Farias, Vinícius Quadros Borges, Eduardo Soares de Souza, Natália Miki, Fernando Abdala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia 2015-02-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-36162015000100016&lng=en&tlng=en