PURPOSE Our purpose was to develop an alternative method to divide the acetabulum and femoral head into different zones based on anatomic landmarks clearly visible during arthroscopy to facilitate reporting the geographic location of intra-articular injuries. METHODS Two vertical lines are positioned across the acetabulum aligned with the anterior and posterior limits of the acetabular notch....

Avulsion fracture of the anterior tibial eminence is an uncommon injury. If bone union does not occur, knee extension will be limited by impingement of the avulsed fragment and knee instability will be induced by dysfunction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). This report describes a 55-year-old woman who experienced an avulsion fracture of the right anterior tibial eminence during recreat...

Metric and morphological techniques employed by forensic anthropologists for determination of race are reviewed. Included are several studies which examine cranial morphological techniques such as presence of the oval window of the inner ear, which occurs more frequently in Whites than in Native Americans; or the shape of the alveolar region which distinguishes between Asian, African, and North...

After spinal cord injury (SCI), bone loss in the paralysed limbs progresses at variable rates. Decreases in bone mineral density (BMD) in the first year range from 1% (slow) to 40% (rapid). In chronic SCI, fragility fractures commonly occur around the knee, with significant associated morbidity. Osteoporosis treatments await full evaluation in SCI, but should be initiated early and targeted tow...

The purpose of the present study was to conduct direct measurements in a large sample of dried femori in order to record certain morphometric parameters of the femoral condyles and determine whether there are gender and side differences. Three hundred sixty (Greek) Caucasian dried femori (180 left and 180 right), from 192 males and 168 females, were measured using a digital caliper. The mean ag...

BACKGROUND Juvenile osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) of the medial femoral condyle (MFC) is one of the most common causes of knee pain in adolescents. Wilson sign reproduces knee pain with internal rotation of the tibia during extension of the knee from 90 to 30 degrees due to impingement of the tibial eminence on the MFC. This impingement may result in microtrauma and contribute to lesion forma...

Aims and Objectives: To determine the relationship between alpha angle intercondylar notch width measurements ACL tears.Materials Methods: A total of 100 subjects were included in this study. Patient’s with injury grouped as cases (torn group) those without ligament controls (intact group).Controls age sex matched that cases.Type study: Prospective StudyPlace Department radiodiagnosis, Kamineni...

This report describes a rare case of concomitant ipsilateral pelvic disruption, hip dislocation, a femoral shaft fracture, supra and intercondylar fracture of the femur, and tibial shaft fracture in a young man who suffered a fall from a moving truck. The hip dislocation was reduced under general anaesthesia with a closed procedure. Both femoral shaft and distal femoral fractures were reduced a...

BACKGROUND Cyclops syndrome is characterized by loss of terminal knee extension due to proliferative fibrous nodule formation in the intercondylar notch. This complication occurs in the early postoperative period after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). The pathogenesis of Cyclops syndrome is not well understood. HYPOTHESIS Persistent hamstring contracture after ACLR is associa...