Analysis of hand radiographs of juvenile siblings of juvenile propositi indicates that brachymesophalangia-5 alone (without cones) is separately inherited without apparent sex bias while brachymesophalangia-5 with the cone-epiphysis of mid-5 and the cone-epiphysis of mid-5 alone are both apparently inherited as a complex and with a marked excess of females over males. Brachymesophalangia-5 is a...

This paper discusses the differential diagnosis of unusual and distinct pathological changes in two left femurs and one left pelvic bone fragment from the Necropolis of Santa Maria, Sintra (Portugal), dated from the 14-17 centuries. The differential diagnosis of the lesions gave rise to several possible pathological conditions, namely, slipped femoral capital epiphysis, Legg-CalvéPerthes diseas...

The growth of five variables of the tibia (diaphyseal length, diaphyseal length plus distal epiphysis, condylo-malleolar length, sagittal diameter of the proximal epiphysis, maximum breadth of the distal epiphysis) were analysed using polynomial regression in order to evaluate their significance and capacity for age and sex determination during and after growth. Data were collected from 181 (90...

Birds have a distally reduced, splinter-like fibula that is shorter than the tibia. In embryonic development, both skeletal elements start out with similar lengths. We examined molecular markers of cartilage differentiation in chicken embryos. We found that the distal end of the fibula expresses Indian hedgehog (IHH), undergoing terminal cartilage differentiation, and almost no Parathyroid-rela...

In a previous communication (Hall-Craggs 1968) the results of experimental epiphysiodesis of the upper and lower ends of the rabbit tibia were reported. It was found that when growth in length at either the proximal or distal extremity of the bone was restricted by epiphysiodesis a reduction in the normal deceleration of growth rate occurred at the opposite end. As a result the undamaged epiphy...

BACKGROUND: Slipped capital femoral epiphysis is one of the most severe diseases hip joint in children and characterized by displacement proximal epiphysis, occurring as a result decrease mechanical strength its growth plate. Some pathological processes joints lumbosacral spine cause changes position (vergence) pelvis sagittal plane development degenerative dystrophic diseases. The analysis spi...

This article deals with the mechanism of production and the method of reduction of injuries of the lateral condvlar epiphysis of the humerus. These injuries are usually described as affecting the capitulum, but, as noted by Roberts (1936) and Watson-Jones (1943), the detached fragment consists of the capitular epiphysis and the lateral third of the trochlea with a fragment (common to all epiphy...

Slipped epiphysis of the head of the femur is one of the common orthopedic disorders of adolescents, yet little is known of its etiology. Various factors have been suggested as the cause of slipped epiphysis, including abnormalities of the bone or cartilage in the head of the femur-'l such as those brought about by endocrine irregularities,8'7'9-'6ls9128l'9 ""-"1 trauma,5,t-* mechanical factors...

A 16-year-old adolescent male presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of left-sided hip pain of 3 weeks’ duration. The frequency of pain was intermittent and tended to be worst since the last 3 days, with the complaints of left knee pain and limping added on top of the pain. He had neither a history of trauma nor a previously known disease. His physical examination revealed...