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The purpose of this study was to estimate the average angle of femoral neck anteversion in an Indian population. A total of 300 dry femora were classified by standard anatomical norms into male and female types and left-side and right-side types. They were evaluated by the Kingsley Olmsted and parallelograph methods, and the data were statistically analyzed. The average angles of anteversion obtained were 8.1° and 8.3° by the Kingsley Olmsted and parallelograph methods, respectively. The average female-type bone showed about 3° more anteversion than the male-type bone. The average left-sided bone showed about 1.6° more anteversion than the right-sided bone. A statistically significant difference existed between the sexes and the sides. The Kingsley Olmsted and parallelograph methods were found to be comparable with a correlation coefficient of 0.99. Altogether, 42.33%, 57.66%, and 79.00% of bones had readings of 5°–10°, 0°–10°, and 0°–15°, respectively. Thus, femoral neck anteversion has been found to be less in the Indian population than in Western populations.
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Received: August 20, 2002 / Accepted: January 13, 2003
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Jain, A., Maheshwari, A., Nath, S. et al. Anteversion of the femoral neck in Indian dry femora. J Orthop Sci 8, 334–340 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-003-0648-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-003-0648-5