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Trębacz P, Frymus J, Pawlik M, Barteczko A, Kurkowska A, Czopowicz M. Minimally Invasive Plate Osteosynthesis (MIPO) of Comminuted Radial Fractures Using a Locking Plate Contoured on a 3D-Printed Model of the Feline Antebrachium: A Cadaveric Study. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:1381. [PMID: 38731385 PMCID: PMC11083139 DOI: 10.3390/ani14091381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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(1) Background: Due to the unique structural and functional characteristics of the forelimb in cats, fractures of the radius and ulna are best repaired using internal fixation and stabilization in accordance with AO principles. This study presents the results of reduction of 42 cadaveric comminuted feline radial fractures reduced by minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO). (2) Methods: Radius fractures were created on 21 pairs of forelimbs with intact bones. MIPO was then performed using two locking bone plates pre-contoured on 3D-printed bone models of the antebrachium of a male and a female cat. Pre- and postoperative radiographs were taken, and radius length and anatomical lateral distal radial angle (aLDRA) were measured. (3) Results: All fractures were classified as complex diaphyseal fractures of the radius. The radial bone length did not change significantly after surgery (F1,18 = 0.01, p = 0.933). However, the aLDRA was modified after surgery (F1,18 = 7.51, p = 0.013), but this change was only observed in females, in whom the aLDRA was significantly reduced (p = 0.035) compared to the value determined by the shape of the plate. In males, the pre- and postoperative aLDRA values were similar (p = 0.824). In 40 cases, alignment, adjacency of bone fragments, and apparatus were judged to be satisfactory. In two cases, the plate was fixed to the proximal radius and distal ulna due to misidentification of the distal radius. In both cases, revision surgery and correct fixation of the radius gave proper alignment, adjacency, and apparatus. (4) Conclusion: A pre-contoured plate on a 3D-printed model of the male and female domestic cat antebrachium was suitable for the reduction and stabilization of comminuted radial fractures in a cohort of domestic cat cadavers without the need to print individual antebrachial bone models for each patient.
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- Piotr Trębacz
- Department of Surgery and Anaesthesiology of Small Animals, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 C, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Surgery and Anaesthesiology of Small Animals, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 C, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- CABIOMEDE Ltd., Karola Olszewskiego 21, 25-663 Kielce, Poland; (M.P.); (A.B.); (A.K.)
- Department of Biomaterials and Medical Devices Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelta 40, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
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- CABIOMEDE Ltd., Karola Olszewskiego 21, 25-663 Kielce, Poland; (M.P.); (A.B.); (A.K.)
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- CABIOMEDE Ltd., Karola Olszewskiego 21, 25-663 Kielce, Poland; (M.P.); (A.B.); (A.K.)
- Department of Biomaterials and Medical Devices Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelta 40, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
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- Division of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 C, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland;
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Chirchir H, Ruff C, Helgen KM, Potts R. Effects of reduced mobility on trabecular bone density in captive big cats. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 9:211345. [PMID: 35360345 PMCID: PMC8965411 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Bone responds to elevated mechanical loading by increasing in mass and density. Therefore, wild animals should exhibit greater skeletal mass and density than captive conspecifics. This expectation is pertinent to testing bone functional adaptation theories and to comparative studies, which commonly use skeletal remains that combine zoo and wild-caught specimens. Conservationists are also interested in the effects of captivity on bone morphology as it may influence rewilding success. We compared trabecular bone volume fraction (BVF) between wild and captive mountain lions, cheetahs, leopards and jaguars. We found significantly greater BVF in wild than in captive felids. Effects of captivity were more marked in the humerus than in the femur. A ratio of humeral/femoral BVF was also lower in captive animals and showed a positive relationship to home range size in wild animals. Results are consistent with greater forelimb than hindlimb loading during terrestrial travel, and possibly reduced loading of the forelimb associated with lack of predatory behaviour in captive animals. Thus, captivity among felids has general effects on BVF in the postcranial skeleton and location-specific effects related to limb use. Caution should be exercised when identifying skeletal specimens for use in comparative studies and when rearing animals for conservation purposes.
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- Habiba Chirchir
- Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755-0003, USA
- Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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Garvin HM, Dunn R, Sholts SB, Litten MS, Mohamed M, Kuttickat N, Skantz N. Forensic Tools for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains: Metrics, Statistics, and OsteoID. BIOLOGY 2021; 11:biology11010025. [PMID: 35053025 PMCID: PMC8773354 DOI: 10.3390/biology11010025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Although nonhuman remains constitute a significant portion of forensic anthropological casework, the potential use of bone metrics to assess the human origin and to classify species of skeletal remains has not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to assess the utility of quantitative methods in distinguishing human from nonhuman remains and present additional resources for species identification. Over 50,000 measurements were compiled from humans and 27 nonhuman (mostly North American) species. Decision trees developed from the long bone data can differentiate human from nonhuman remains with over 90% accuracy (>98% accuracy for the human sample), even if all long bones are pooled. Stepwise discriminant function results were slightly lower (>87.4% overall accuracy). The quantitative models can be used to support visual identifications or preliminarily assess forensic significance at scenes. For species classification, bone-specific discriminant functions returned accuracies between 77.7% and 89.1%, but classification results varied highly across species. From the study data, we developed a web tool, OsteoID, for users who can input measurements and be shown photographs of potential bones/species to aid in visual identification. OsteoID also includes supplementary images (e.g., 3D scans), creating an additional resource for forensic anthropologists and others involved in skeletal species identification and comparative osteology.
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- Heather M. Garvin
- Department of Anatomy, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA;
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Anatomy, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA;
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- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20056, USA; (S.B.S.); (M.S.L.)
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- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20056, USA; (S.B.S.); (M.S.L.)
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- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA; (M.M.); (N.K.); (N.S.)
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- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA; (M.M.); (N.K.); (N.S.)
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- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA; (M.M.); (N.K.); (N.S.)
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Boonsri B, Nganvongpanit K, Buddhachat K, Punyapornwithaya V, Kongtueng P, Kaewmong P, Kittiwattanawong K. Morphometric analysis of cervical vertebrae in some marine and land mammals. Anat Histol Embryol 2021; 50:812-825. [PMID: 34272750 DOI: 10.1111/ahe.12725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bones or skeletal remains can be used to answer a number of questions related to species, sex, age or cause of death. However, studies involving vertebrae have been limited as most were performed on skulls or long bones. Here, we have stated the hypothesis that the morphometry of cervical vertebrae can be used for species identification and body size estimation among marine and land mammals. The cervical vertebrae from eight and 14 species of marine and land mammals were used to collect morphometric data. Cluster dendrogram, principal component analysis, discriminant analysis and linear regression were used to analyse the data. The results indicate that, based on an index of C4 to C7, there were 13 out of 22 species for which identity could be correctly predicted in 100% of the cases. The correlations between cervical vertebrae parameters (height, width and length of centrum) in marine (average R2 = 0.87, p < .01) and land (average R2 = 0.51, p < .01) mammals were observed. These results indicate that vertebral morphometrics could be used for species prediction and verification of body weight in both marine and land mammals.
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- Burin Boonsri
- Department of Companion Animals and Wildlife Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.,Excellence Center in Veterinary Bioscience, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Excellence Center in Veterinary Bioscience, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
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- Department of Food Animal Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Central Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Pelvic bone morphometric analysis in the dugong (Dugong dugon). Sci Rep 2020; 10:19350. [PMID: 33168870 PMCID: PMC7652886 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76545-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The dugong (Dugong dugon Müller) is recognized as an endangered marine mammal. There is limited available anatomical data on the dugong's skeletal system, while what is available has not been well established due to the limited number of archived samples and limited access to them. Importantly, there are certain key questions that should be answered when examining the bones and/or remains of animals such as; what kind of bone is it?; what species does it belong to?; what sex was the animal?; how old was the animal? or how big was it?, etc. In this study, we have focused on the pelvic bone of the dugong by asserting the hypothesis that pelvic bone morphology is related to age, sex, and body size. Here, we have established certain morphometric data encompassing 8 parameters and 5 indexes to analyze the morphology of the pelvic bones obtained from 88 specimens (45 dugongs). We will present three main findings: (1) the pelvic bone in mature male subjects is larger than it is in female subjects, (2) a high rate of accuracy can be established for sex identification using morphometric data obtained from the pelvic bone, and (3) the pelvic bone has the highest degree of correlation with body length, followed by body weight and age. Notably, the important data on the pelvic bone of the dugong acquired in this study can be reliable and extremely useful in sex identification and body size estimation.
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Boonsri B, Buddhachat K, Punyapornwithaya V, Phatsara M, Nganvongpanit K. Determination of whether morphometric analysis of vertebrae in the domestic cat (Felis catus) is related to sex or skull shape. Anat Sci Int 2020; 95:387-398. [PMID: 32125674 DOI: 10.1007/s12565-020-00533-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In many mammals, gender and skull shape are related to the bone morphology of the entire body; however, this has not been well established in the domestic cat (Felis catus). This study aims to find a relationship between cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae morphometrics with regard to the sex and skull shape of domestic cats. A total of 79 samples obtained from 92 dried bones of domestic cats were used to determine morphometric measurements for a total of 29 parameters. Hierarchical clustering was used to cluster the vertebral bones found in three groups: C3-T1, T2-T11 and T12-L7. The skull shape identification process employed discriminative analysis and revealed the highest training data accuracy rate at up to 86.20% in T4 followed by L1 (86.04%) Axis (85.71%) and C5 (85.18%). Sex identification employed discriminative analysis and displayed the highest training data accuracy rate at up to 75.58% in L1 followed by, T7 (71.87%) and C6 (71.79%). Moreover, we found that 14% of the samples had one vertebra missing (T13 or L1). In conclusion, domestic cat vertebral morphometrics were found to be more related to skull shape than gender. In addition, bone clustering employed morphometric data and yielded a result that was similar to that of traditional cluster analysis involving body regions.
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- Burin Boonsri
- Animal Bone and Joint Research Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50100, Thailand
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, 65000, Thailand
- Excellence Center in Veterinary Bioscience, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand
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- Department of Food Animal Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50100, Thailand
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand
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- Animal Bone and Joint Research Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50100, Thailand.
- Excellence Center in Veterinary Bioscience, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
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