Histological Study of the Femural Head and Neck Microscopic Architecture in Persons with Senile Osteoporosis

For our study were available fragments of bony tissue from 24 patients (15 females and 9 males) aged between 55–82 which needed hip arthroplasty after they had undergone femural neck fractures. Biologic pieces have been fixed, then decalcified and processed by wax embedding. We noted that the spongious osseous tissue appeared as rarefied after the remoulding processes; osseous traveas grew unplainly thinner, with their large areolar cavities filled of bony yellow marrow. The osseous cortex presented deformed osteomas with large irregular Havers ducts. The osteocytes appeared rarefied, of small size with a picnotic and hypercrome nucleus.