At seven million years old, S. tchadensis is a candidate ... but didn’t initially spot the shaft of an upper leg bone. The blackened femur fragment was first noticed in 2004 by graduate student ...

12 were fractures of the subtrochanteric or diaphyseal femur that occurred in 10 women (for whom only one radiograph was available). With 12 fractures during 51,287 patient-years in the three ...

In one series, a small number of patients sustained ... Panel A shows a fracture of the femoral shaft in an 83-year-old woman with a 9-year history of alendronate use. Panel B shows a similar ...

In 2008, a relatively complete left human femoral diaphysis was discovered ... about 50,000–30,000 years old (that is, from Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3). Figure 1: Geographic location ...