Publications by authors named "Matthias Rozak"

Since in humans, the first digital ray has a different functional significance in the hand and in the foot, the comparison of the pollical and hallucal rays seems interesting in order to evaluate the influence of specific evolutionary functional factors and biomechanical constraints. The objective of this study was to provide original and detailed data on the intrinsic proportions of the three segments of the human pollical and hallucal rays (metacarpal or metatarsal bone, proximal phalanx, and distal phalanx) in order to allow a quantitative comparison of their relative development. No similar data evaluated from three-dimensional approaches (volumetric or ponderal) seem to be available in the literature.

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