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244 12. BIOMECHANICAL STUDY IN THE CALCANEUS BONE AFTER AN AUTOLOGOUS BONE HARVEST

FIG. 12.3 Maximum principal stress in an intact foot with loads of 300 (A), 600 (C), and 750 N (E), respectively, and with 7.5mm bone excision and
loads of 300 (B), 600 (D), and 750N (F), respectively.

However, as the volume of bone removal increased and the load on the talus increased in both the intact model and
models with bone removal, we observed that maximum principle stresses were concentrated around the region of the
extracted bone (Fig. 12.3).

I. BIOMECHANICS