title: Potential of P40 plastination for morphometric hip measurements.
abstract: Total hip replacement has become one of the most successful surgical operations over the past 25 years. The duration of a total hip prosthesis depends on primary stability, and many studies have tried precisely to evaluate hip joint morphology to obtain excellent contact between bone and prosthetic component. This study performed a morphometric analysis of the human hip joint using, for the first time, the P40 plastination procedure. We cut 42 hip joint compounds into slices 3 mm thick; for exact distance measuring the sections were scanned into the computer. The following mean measurements for hip geometry were obtained: vertical diameter of acetabulum 4.894+/-0.274 cm, depth of acetabulum 1.643+/-0.245 cm, femoral head radius 2.268+/-0.149 cm, femoral neck length 4.3670+/-0.528 cm, acetabular perimeter 6.711+/-0.434 cm, vertical diameter of labrum acetabulare 4.759+/-0.476 cm, depth of labrum acetabulare 2.599+/-0.395 cm, sum of femoral head and neck lengths 6.759+/-0.550 cm, hip axis length 11.859+/-1.007 cm, femoral neck axis length 10.12+/-0.555 cm, and femoral neck diameter 3.349+/-0.276 cm. All of these data reveal a significant gender difference. Our aim was to indicate an unconventional and new method of gaining morphometric hip data by using plastination.
authors.affiliation: Plastination Laboratory, Institute of Anatomy, Vienna University, Währingerstrasse 13/3, 1090, Vienna, Austria. birgit.genser-strobl@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Genser-Strobl
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sora
mesh_terms: D000077:Acetabulum / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry; D002102:Cadaver; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005272:Femur Neck / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008867:Microtomy; D016613:Plastic Embedding / Q000379:methods*; D010969:Plastics / Q000737:chemistry; D012737:Sex Factors
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics