TY - JOUR
TI - Odontoid Process and Femur: A Novel Bond in Anatomy
AU - Vasilopoulos, Anastasios
AU - Tsoucalas, Gregory
AU - Panagouli, Eleni and
AU - Trypsianis, Gregory
AU - Thomaidis, Vasilios
AU - Fiska, Aliki
JO - CUREUS
PY - 2020
VL - 12
TODO - 3
SP - null
PB - CUREUS INC
SN - null
TODO - 10.7759/cureus.7372
TODO - long bone measurements; femur maximum length; anatomy; anthropology;
forensics
TODO - Objective
The morphology and quantitative anatomy of the axis vertebra (C2)
attracts a lot of attention between anatomists, surgeons and
radiologists. However, no report exists in the literature correlating
the height of the dens with the length of the femur. Our paper aims to
determine such a correlation.
Material and methods
An examination of forty-five adult dry skeletons (twenty-three male and
twenty-two female) was conducted. The height of the odontoid process of
the axis and the maximum length of the femur were measured and
statistically analyzed.
Results
The mean values for the height of the dens were 19.13 +/- 2.74 mm and
16.83 +/- 2.45 mm concerning the male and female dry skeletons
respectively. The mean maximum length of the right femur bone was 43.04
+/- 2.32 cm for male and 39.90 +/- 2.40 cm for female skeletons. Data
analysis revealed a statistically significant correlation (r=0.709, p
<0.001) between the height of the odontoid process and the maximum
length of the femur bone. A linear regression model expressing this
association was created: Femur max length (in cm) = 32.874 + 0.531 x
Dens height (in mm).
Conclusion
We present a new mathematical equation correlating one of the most
studied long bones of the skeleton, the femur, with another long”
part of the bony structure of the human body- the C2 odontoid process.
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