CORRELATION OF LENGTH OF FEMUR WITH ITS PROXIMAL FRAGMENTS- A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 70
Abstract
BACKGROUND The stature of an individual is used to establish the identity of a person medicolegally. The stature is calculated from the length of long bones. This study is an effort to derive regression equations for the reconstruction of length of femur from its fragments. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a descriptive study using hundred and twenty-one dry femurs from Department of Anatomy, Govt. Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram. Length of femur and the dimensions of its proximal segments were measured using osteometric board and Vernier callipers respectively. RESULTS All the five parameters of the proximal segment show significant relation with length of femur (p value < 0.001) of which intertrochanteric distance (EF) shows maximum correlation. Regression equations for estimating femoral length from the length of proximal fragments were derived by linear regression analysis. CONCLUSION Regression equations derived in this study are helpful to estimate the stature in medicolegal investigations and in anthropometry.
Authors and Affiliations
Suja Robert Joseph Sarasammal, Latha Sreedhar Lekshmy Sreedhar, Aswathy Maria Oommen, Sheena K. S, Sreekumar Rajasekharan, Swapna T
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