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The Ranawat Award. Sulcus morphology of the distal femur
D G Eckhoff1, B J Burke, T F Dwyer
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Colorado, Denver 80262, USA.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
Traditional images of the distal femur place the intercondylar groove midway between the condyles. The location of the sulcus of the intercondylar groove in a large Sudanese skeletal population was verified using a custom stereotactic device. The results of this study show that the femoral sulcus is lateral to the midplane between the 2 femoral condyles. This study also shows that the configuration of the sulcus is linear and is oriented between the traditional anatomic and mechanical axes of the femur.