...Rad Zdero; Khaled Elfallah; Michael Olsen; Emil H. Schemitsch Biomechanical investigations of orthopedic fracture fixation constructs increasingly use analogs like the third and fourth generation composite femurs. However, no study has directly compared cortical screw purchase between...

... to human long-bones at the screw-bone interface. However, it is not known whether these femurs perform similarly to human bone during physiological screw “toggling.” 06 06 2005 28 08 2006 biomechanics bone orthopaedics prosthetics fracture composite femur bone analog cortical...