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the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

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The location of NF is considered as point of initiation for longitudinal stress fractures, commonly in the tibia and less commonly in the femur, fibula, and patella bones (7).
Overall, 107 femur, 91 tibia, and 67 fibula of unknown sex and age were examined in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine.
Morphological and Topographical Anatomy of Nutrient Foramen in The Lower Limb Long Bones/Alt Ekstremite Uzun Kemiklerinde Foramen Nutricium'larin Morfolojik ve Topografk Anatomisi
No obstante, el hallazgo de una de estas fibulas en el Cerro de las Albahacas, escenario de la batalla de Baecula, plantea su perduracion hasta el 208 a.
En este sentido el caso de las fibulas es especialmente resenable.
Gilded bronze fibulae with triangles on the bridge and covered spring/FIBULAS DE BRONCE DORADO CON TRIANGULOS SOBRE EL PUENTE Y RESORTE CUBIERTO
The case series was conducted at the Department of Plastic Surgery, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from June 2009 to May 2011, and comprised 19 patients in whom free fibula flap was performed for upper and lower limb reconstruction, using SPSS 16.
Probably the most popular possibility for bone-only and free composite tissue harvest is the free fibula transplantation.
Use of vascularised free fibula in limb reconstruction (for non-malignant defects)
SUMMARY: The nutrient foramina of the femur and fibula are located in the middle third of the diaphysis of these bones, on the other hand in the tibia it's in the proximal third of its diaphysis.
Diaphyseal nutrient foramina in the femur, tibia and fibula bones/Foramenes nutricios diafisarios de los huesos femur, tibia y fibula
En general, las fibulas antiguas nutren los diferentes grupos peninsulares de la epoca realizadas en una sola pieza, sobre un hilo continuo diferentemente tratado--martilleado, estiramiento o fundido en molde-, articulando un solo fragmento: puente, aguja, resorte--muelle--y pie--mortaja-.
Datos para el estudio de las fibulas de pivote en la Peninsula Iberica. El ejemplar del Cerro de la Mora (Moraleda de Zafayona, Granada)
Kolmongorov-Smirnov (KS) test was used on all the analyzed variables, lengths of long bones of the humerus, femur, tibia and fibula of the right or the left side of skeleton, and revealed p value less than 0.05, which indicates that the assumption of "normality" is not satisfied and that non-parametric tests should be used for the comparison of samples.
Secular trends in body height in Balkan populations from 1945 to 1995
Eight out of ten patients underwent biologic reconstruction using autograt; in addition three had autoclaved bone whereas the rest had fibula from the other leg mixed with corticocancellous graft.
Complex biological reconstruction after wide excision of osteogenic sarcoma in lower extremities
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