 Femur
"Femur" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The longest and largest bone of the skeleton, it is situated between the hip and the knee.
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D005269
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.043.650.247
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Femur" by people in Profiles.
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Ippolito E, Farsetti P, Boyce AM, Corsi A, De Maio F, Collins MT. Radiographic classification of coronal plane femoral deformities in polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2014 May; 472(5):1558-67.
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Martin BD, Cherkashin AM, Tulchin K, Samchukov M, Birch JG. Treatment of femoral lengthening-related knee stiffness with a novel quadricepsplasty. J Pediatr Orthop. 2013 Jun; 33(4):446-52.
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Hemmerich A, van der Merwe W, Batterham M, Vaughan CL. Knee rotational laxity in a randomized comparison of single- versus double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Am J Sports Med. 2011 Jan; 39(1):48-56.
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Oetgen ME, Walick KS, Tulchin K, Karol LA, Johnston CE. Functional results after surgical treatment for congenital knee dislocation. J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Apr-May; 30(3):216-23.
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Obafemi AA, Bulas DI, Troendle J, Marini JC. Popcorn calcification in osteogenesis imperfecta: incidence, progression, and molecular correlation. Am J Med Genet A. 2008 Nov 01; 146A(21):2725-32.
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Yarrow JF, Conover CF, Purandare AV, Bhakta AM, Zheng N, Conrad B, Altman MK, Franz SE, Wronski TJ, Borst SE. Supraphysiological testosterone enanthate administration prevents bone loss and augments bone strength in gonadectomized male and female rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Nov; 295(5):E1213-22.
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Oetgen ME, Smart LR, Medvecky MJ. A novel technique for arthroscopically assisted femoral bone tunnel grafting in two-stage ACL revision. Orthopedics. 2008 Jan; 31(1):16-8.
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Okamoto Y, Mathew S, Daw NC, Neel MD, McCarville MB, Dome JS, Hill DA. Giant cell tumor of bone with pulmonary metastases. Med Pediatr Oncol. 2003 Nov; 41(5):454-9.
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