A porous polymeric-hydroxyapatite scaffold used for femur fractures treatment: fabrication, analysis, and simulation.

Background: One of the most common fractures in the skeleton happens in the femur. One of the important reasons for this fracture is because it is the longest bone in the body and osteoporosis affect this part a lot. The geometric complexity and anisotropy properties of this bone have received a lot of attention in the orthopedic field.