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Type of Article:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Original Research<\/h3>\n

Volume 8; Issue 1.3 (March 2020)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Page No.:<\/strong>\u00a07378-7382<\/h3>\n

DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.16965\/ijar.2020.107<\/h3>\n

MORPHOLOGICAL AND MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF NUTRIENT FORAMINA OF FEMUR IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION<\/h3>\n

Abhijit K R 1<\/sup>,\u00a0 Prathap Kumar J *2<\/sup>,\u00a0 Shailaja Shetty 3<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Intern, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.<\/p>\n

*2<\/sup> Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup> Professor & HOD, Department of Anatomy, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.<\/p>\n

Corresponding Author: <\/strong>Dr Prathap Kumar J, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy,\u00a0M S Ramaiah Medical College, \u00a0M S R Nagar, MSRIT post, Mathikere, Bangalore, Karnataka, India- 560054. Ph No. 9743989426 E-Mail:<\/strong> dr.prathapkumar@gmail.com<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/h3>\n

B<\/strong>a<\/strong>c<\/strong>kg<\/strong>r<\/strong>o<\/strong>und<\/strong>: The knowledge of variations in the position of nutrient foramina and hence nutrient arteries is important for orthopedicians and radiologists for various procedures.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>: The major blood supply to long bones occurs through the nutrient arteries, which enter through the foramina called nutrient foramina. The blood supply from nutrient artery is essential during the growing period, also during the early phases of ossification, and in procedures such as bone grafts, transplant techniques in orthopaedics. The present study analyzed the position and number of nutrient foramina in the diaphysis of fifty adult femora.<\/p>\n

Aim:<\/strong> to determine the number, direction, position of nutrient foramen and whether the nutrient foramina obey the general rule that is, directed away from the growing end of the bone<\/p>\n

Materials and Method<\/strong>: The present study has been undertaken in Fifty dry adult femora of South Indian origin in the Department of Anatomy, M.S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore. The number, directions, position of nutrient foramen in femur were measured with a digital Vernier caliper. The data were tabulated as mean +<\/u> SD and statistically compared between the right and left sides.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong>\u00a0 A total of 75 foramina were examined in the 50 bones.\u00a0 40 in Right sided femur and 35 in left sided femur. 46% bones had single foramina and 52% bones had double foramina. Foramen was absent in 2% bones. All nutrient foramina in the femur were directed proximally, away from the growing end. 16% of the foramina were located in the proximal third of the bone and the rest 84% were located in the middle third of the bone. There was no significant difference in location of foramina between right and left sided bones.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong>: This study will provide the ethnic data for comparison among various populations. It is also helpful in interpretation of radiological images and for orthopedic procedures. Precise knowledge of usual and anomalous position of nutrient foramina and hence the nutrient artery may help the orthopaedician for the internal fixation at appropriate place in the long bone. The location of nutrient foramen is important for bone grafts, tumour resections, in traumas, congenital pseudoarthrosis and more recently in microsurgical vascularised bone transplantation.<\/p>\n

Key words<\/strong>: Nutrient Artery, Diaphysis, Long Bone, Internal Fixation, Bone Graft, Bone Transplantation.<\/p>\n

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