The epiphyseal tubercle in adolescent hips
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Orthopaedica
- Vol. 80 (4), 416-419
- https://doi.org/10.3109/17453670903153550
Abstract
Background It has already been shown in animals and using anatomical human specimens that chronic slippage of the adolescent upper (capital) femoral epiphysis is unlikely to take place by shearing due to the presence of an epiphyseal tubercle projecting down into the metaphysis.Keywords
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