| Autor: |
Mkandawire C; Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering, Seattle, WA, USA., Ledoux WR, Sangeorzan BJ, Ching RP |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of rehabilitation research and development [J Rehabil Res Dev] 2005 Nov-Dec; Vol. 42 (6), pp. 809-20. |
| DOI: |
10.1682/jrrd.2004.08.0094 |
| Abstrakt: |
This study primarily measured and established a morphometric spectrum of cross-sectional areas for foot and ankle ligaments with the use of a new freeze-fracture technique that was independent of ligament cross-sectional shape. Ligament morphometry measurements were made on a total of 121 bone-ligament-bone preparations that were harvested from 26 fresh (unembalmed) male cadaver feet. We used the traditional digital caliper method to measure length and the freeze-fracture technique to measure cross-sectional area. Cross-sectional area values ranged from 21.36 to 170.48 mm(2) and length values from 5.01 to 37.45 mm. In addition, area-to-length ratios ranged from 0.60 to 27.02 mm. Compared with the freeze-fracture technique, the digital caliper method, which assumed that ligament cross-sectional shape was rectangular, resulted in an approximately 35% difference in cross-sectional area. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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