BACKGROUND The amount of medial compartment opening for medial knee injuries determined by valgus stress radiography has not been well documented. The purpose of this study was to develop clinical guidelines for diagnosing medial knee injuries using valgus stress radiography. HYPOTHESIS Measurements of medial compartment gapping can accurately differentiate between normal and injured medial s...

The popularity of medial axis in shape modeling and analysis comes from several of its well known fundamental properties. For example, medial axis captures the connectivity of the domain, has a lower dimension than the space itself, and is closely related to the distance function constructed over the same domain. We formally define the new concept of a medial zone of an n-dimensional semi-analy...

Ten cases of paralytic medial ectropion associated with 7th nerve palsy were treated with a new procedure involving shortening of the medial canthal structures and division of the inferior canaliculus with subsequent marsupialisation. The success of this operation is supported by anatomical and functional studies.

Background and Study Aim. This study aimed to examine the differences between a range of performance parameters in -Greco-Roman Freestyle wrestlers. The group consisted 60 young wrestlers, which 30 were Greco-Roman, freestyle.
 Material Methods. analysed included aerobic endurance, lower upper extremity anaerobic power capacity, postural sway, change direction, sprint (5m-10m-20m-30m), vis...

Although there is abundant evidence for segregated processing in the olfactory system across vertebrate taxa, the spatial relationship between the second order projection neurons (PNs) of olfactory subsystems connecting sensory input to higher brain structures is less clear. In the sea lamprey, there is tight coupling between olfaction and locomotion via PNs extending to the posterior tuberculu...

*The superficial medial collateral ligament and other medial knee stabilizers-i.e., the deep medial collateral ligament and the posterior oblique ligament-are the most commonly injured ligamentous structures of the knee. *The main structures of the medial aspect of the knee are the proximal and distal divisions of the superficial medial collateral ligament, the meniscofemoral and meniscotibial ...

This paper describes a novel approach to generating a multi-block decomposition of 2-D domains into high quality quad sub-regions using the medial axis transform (MAT). Bunin's continuum theory for unstructured mesh generation [1] is used as a means of understanding how the information contained in the MAT can be used to find effective positions for mesh dislocations.

A three-dimensional, medial-axis-based mesh generator is described. First the medial axis of the geometry to be meshed is constructed, then quad-dominant meshes on the medial surface are generated and extruded to the boundary at both sides of the medial surface. The resulting single cell layer is subdivided in direction normal to the boundary, yielding columns of hexahedral and three-sided pris...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyze the chronological changes of the pathologic medial plica and the chondral lesions on the medial femoral condyle. The relationship between the severity of the pathologic medial plica and that of the chondral lesions on the medial femoral condyle was also investigated. TYPE OF STUDY Retrospective case series study of consecutive pati...