A Study of Nutrient Foramen of Dry Adult Humerus Bones of West Bengal Population

Abstract

Background: Nutrient foramen (NF) is an opening on the surface of bone which conduct peripheral nerve and nutrient artery. The major blood supply for long bones arise from this nutrient arteries. This supply is essential during the growing period and early phases of ossification and surgical interventions such as bone grafts, tumour resection, congenital pseudoarthrosis and in transplant techniques in Orthopaedics. This study was aimed to determine the number, direction, position of nutrient foramen and whether the nutrient foramina obey the general rule that is directed away from the growing end of the bone.