Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Relevant anatomical data obtained at the time of dissection
Measurement area | Specimen number/left (L) or right (R) side | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. 1 R | No. 2 R | No. 3 L | No. 4 L | No. 5 L | No. 6 R | No. 7 L | No. 8 R | No. 9 L | No. 10 L | No. 11 L | No. 12 R | No. 13 L | |
1. The distance from the medial condyle to the base of the coronal fossa (cm) | 1.40 | 1.53 | 1.40 | 1.39 | 1.47 | 1.42 | 1.52 | 1.28 | 1.23 | 1.10 | 1.17 | 1.10 | 1.07 |
2. The vertical distance from the vertex of the medial epicondyle to the median nerve (cm) | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
3. The length of humerus (cm) | 29.3 | 28.5 | 29.5 | 31.5 | 27.5 | 28.5 | 27.0 | 31.0 | 32.5 | 29.0 | 28.6 | 27.5 | 29.5 |
4. The distance from the medial epicondyle to the lateral epicondyle of the humerus (cm) | 6.48 | 6.68 | 6.78 | 6.73 | 6.50 | 6.50 | 6.45 | 6.01 | 5.90 | 5.55 | 5.20 | 5.21 | 5.92 |
5. The distance from the vertex of the epicondyle to the intersection of the median nerve and the distal end of the underlying steel plate (cm) | 6.8 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.7 |
6. The distance from the medial base of the humeral head to the intersection of the median nerve and the proximal end of the underlying steel plate. (cm) | 9.2 | 9.8 | 9.0 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 7.6 | 8.5 |