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GTGrand Touring
GTGran Turismo (GT Racing)
GTGrand Theft (felony)
GTGeorgia Tech
GTGuatemala
GTGet Together
GTGene Transfer
GTGirl Talk
GTGas Turbine
GTGifted and Talented
GTGreater Than (computer math)
GTGiant Tiger
GTGrant Thornton LLP
GTGoogle Toolbar
GTGame Theory
GTGamertag (Xbox Live)
GTGood Trip (various locations)
GTGross Tonnage (maritime)
GTGame Trailers (est. 2002)
GTGlobus Toolkit (Global Alliance)
GTGroup Therapy (band)
GTGroup Telecom (Canadian telecommunications company)
GTGlobal Temperature
GTGood Try (games)
GTGlass Tube (vacuum tube)
GTGlobe Telecom (Philippines)
GTGreenberg Traurig, LLP (law firm)
GTGuantanamo, Cuba
GTGrounded Theory (research methodology; social sciences)
GTGround Truth (physical imaging)
GTGroup Technology
GTGreen Tire
GTGigatonnes
GTGiant Toad
GTGlobal Title (SS7)
GTGuybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island game character)
GTGlyphosate Tolerant (agriculture)
GTGin/Tonic
GTGround Test
GTGastric Tube
GTGross Ton
GTGene Trap
GTGround Terminal
GTGold-Tech
GTGround Team (Civil Air Patrol search and rescue)
GTGoal Tending (basketball)
GTGlobe Temperature
GTGuaranteed Traffic
GTGround Track
GTGraphics Terminal
GTGame-tying goal (hockey)
GTGreater Trochanter
GTGenerator Transformer (power plants)
GTGazette Telegraph (Colorado Springs newspaper)
GTGeneral Technical Score (US DoD testing)
GTGround Time
GTGun Target
GTGigatexel
GTGöteborgs-Tidningen (Swedish newspaper)
GTGreat Tribulation
GTGeneric Task
GTGalilean Transformation
GTGelatinization Temperature
GTGrand Trunk Railroad
GTGrid Tool
GTGeared Turbine
GTGuernsey Telecoms (Guernsey, British Channel Island)
GTGuanine-Thymine
GTGive Tokens
GTGroup Traveler
GTGuide Telescope
GTGround Transmission
GTGround Transmitter
GTGenetic Technologist
GTTransmitter Gain
GTGorgy Timing (Grenoble, France time synchronization company)
GTGlial Tangle (neurology)
GTGood Times Emporium (arcade center, Massachusetts)
GTGamov-Teller
GTGain to Noise Temperature Ratio
GTGrid Transformer (UK grid substations)
GTGround Transmit
GTGroup Tactic
GTGrowler Test (armature test)
GTGrunt Tech [US Navy hospital corpsman assigned to a USMC unit] :-)
GTGuidance Transmitter
GTGrassetech (Delta, Utah, USA)
GTGovernment Transportable
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Cvitanic and colleagues evaluated the abductor tendons of the hip using five major criteria: tendon discontinuity, tendon elongation, atrophy of the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus muscles, presence of an area of high signal intensity superior to the greater trochanter on T2-weighted images, and presence of an area of high signal lateral to the greater trochanter on T2-weighted images.
It allows for the assessment of acetabular coverage of the femoral head, femoral head sphericity, (67) the contour of the femoral head-neck junction, the height of the greater trochanter, position of the joint center, the joint space, and Shenton's line.
The anterior portal is made at the intersection of a transverse line tangential to the tip of the greater trochanter and a longitudinal line made distal to the anterior superior iliac spine.
A sign that should be searched and might be for diagnosis in an anterior hip dislocation is the palpation of the femoral head in the midinguinal region as well as a less prominent greater trochanter [6].
A small incision is made above the greater trochanter and the guide wire is passed in thru the fracture site in a trochanteric fracture and from the tip of greater trochanter in a sub trochanteric fracture.
Communition of greater trochanter: Communition of greater trochanter leads to technical difficulty in passing nail and nail entry point may get lateralized, and tip of trochanter can get splayed.
Unlike long PFN, the entry point for standard femoral nail or reconstruction nail is not on the tip of the greater trochanter but in the fossa piriformis.
* Can be put in those patients whose fracture line extends upto greater trochanter, where recon nail fixation is not possible.
Fracture of the greater trochanter during insertion of the nail was seen in one patient, and treated conservatively.
We failed in passing guide wire in the centre of neck in both anteroposterior and lateral view through percutaneous incision of 1 cm below greater trochanter.
"One covers the greater trochanter, which is the bony point of the lateral or outside aspect of the hip--hence, inflammation in this area is referred to as trochanteric bursitis.
Gluteus Maximus 30% proximal between posterior superior iliac spine and the greater trochanter.17 Measurement positions and measurement site for Gluteus maximus.
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