Paper 1: Morphology of the Proximal Femur with Special Regard to the Natural Asphericity of the Head-Neck Junction: A Computed Tomography Study of 1312 Femurs

This cross-sectional 3-dimensional CT study of a large random cohort assessed normative data on the alpha angle and the distribution of its maxima around the femoral head-neck junction. Influence of gender, age and ethnic background as well as additional asphericities at the posterosuperior and inferior head-neck junction were assessed.