In some people, the fibres of the gemellus superior extend further than average, and are prolonged onto the medial surface of the greater trochanter of the femur.
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The femur possesses a round neck, orientated slightly dorsomedially with respect to the long axis of the shaft, and separated from the greater trochanter by a marked trough.
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The examiner may check muscle-tendon length and strength, perform joint mobility testing, and palpate the affected hip over the greater trochanter for lateral symptoms during an activity such as walking.
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The lesser trochanter is markedly lower than the greater trochanter and separated from it by a narrow cleft . It has the shape of a wing-like expansion to the front.
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The femur was short and extremely robust, had a very high collodiaphyseal angle ( the angle of the neck and shaft of the bone ), and the greater trochanter was small.
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On the thighbone, the lesser trochanter has about two thirds of the height of the greater trochanter and is separated from it by a V-shaped cleft . A clear fourth trochanter is present.
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This is an extensive approach, needing an often large incision over the side of the hip, with the detachment of the greater trochanter of the femur and its attached musculature to gain access to the joint.
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The "'hip region "'is located lateral and anterior to the gluteal region ( i . e ., the buttock ), inferior to the iliac crest, and overlying the greater trochanter of the femur, or " thigh bone ".
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The posterior branch pierces the fascia lata, and subdivides into filaments which pass backward across the lateral and posterior surfaces of the thigh, supplying the skin from the level of the greater trochanter to the middle of the thigh.
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It is bounded medially by the internal / lesser trochanter and anterior branch of the ventral femoral ridge, and often less distinctly bounded laterally as the greater trochanter and posterior branch of the ventral ridge are highly reduced or absent.
