Morpometric Analysis Of Dry Femurs Collected From Central Anatolia

ALPA, Şerife | TÜRKOĞLU, Fatma Nur | TÜRKOĞLU, Burak | AYDIN, Methi Sipan

The femur is the largest bone in the human skeleton. We aimed to take the morphometric measurements of the femur and to evaluate the relations between these measurements. The study was carried out in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, KTO Karatay University. A total of 268 bones, 124 right and 144 left, were included in the study. Photographs of the femurs were taken at equal distances and using millimetric paper for measurements. Measurements were taken with image-j program. In our study, femur length, femoral cord length, femoral diaphyseal curvature, thickness measurements from ...Daha fazlası