Development and validation of a novel overhead method for anteroposterior radiographs of fractured rat femurs

Abstract We aimed to establish a new method of obtaining femur anteroposterior radiographs from live rats. We used five adult male Sprague–Dawley rats and created a femoral fracture model with an 8 mm segmental fragment. After the surgery, we obtained two femoral anteroposterior radiographs, a novel...

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Main Authors: Yosuke Sato, Takashi Tagami, Toshio Akimoto, Toru Takiguchi, Yusuke Endo, Takeshi Tsukamoto, Yoshiaki Hara, Shoji Yokobori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56238-4