Clavicle

A paper describing the anatomy of the clavicle stated that gender-specific anatomical features should be taken into consideration when performing intramedullary fixation of the clavicle. The purpose of statistical shape analysis and subsequent modeling in orthopedics is to construct a patient-specific model from incomplete or sparse data using knowledge of the actual population. The aim of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality of a multivariate dataset while retaining as much variation as possible. A variety of measures have been used to assess clavicular dimensions, including cadaveric samples and computerized tomography scans with the help of computer software. This chapter discusses the geometric variation such as morphological groups, length, depths, angles, width and thickness for clavicle. It describes the anatomic variation such as clavicular absence and bifurcate/duplicate clavicle. Coracoclavicular syndesmosis may be a diarthrosis or a cartilaginous symphysis rather than being bound to the inferior clavicle by the coracoclavicular ligament.