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Relationship between formation of the femoral bicondylar angle and trochlear shape: independence of diaphyseal and epiphyseal growth.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Aug 2006
Tardieu C, Glard Y, Garron E, Boulay C, Jouve J-L, Dutour O, Boetsch G, Bollini G
Abstract excerpt
During hominin evolution, an increase in the femoral bicondylar angle was the initial change that led to selection for protuberance of the lateral trochlear lip and the elliptical profile of the lateral condyle. No correlation is found during ontogeny between the degree of femoral obliquity and of the prominence of the lateral trochlear lip. Might there be a relationship with the elliptical profile of the lateral...
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