Estimation of Stature from Upper Extremity

Özaslan, Abdi; Koç, Sermet; Özaslan, İnci Alıç; Tuğcu, Harun

doi:10.7205/milmed.171.4.288

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“…at the site of crime or disaster and are brought to forensic medicine experts with the objective of identification. Studies have been conducted in the recent past on height determination from length of hand, feet, upper extremity and facial measurements in living subjects [1], [4], [10], [14]. To the best of our knowledge, the correlation between combined length of forearm plus hand has not been formulated in Indian population.…”

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“…Increasing frequency of mass disasters like tsunamis, plane crashes, earthquakes, genocides etc. has created problems in the determination of stature and identification of victims when only fragmented or dismembered human remains are available for investigations [3], [4], [5], [6]. In such cases the forensic expert has no choice but to use a relatively less precise method of reconstruction i.e.…”

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Estimation of stature from combined length of forearm and hand in Jammu region of India

Choudhary

Singh

Gupta

2013

International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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Estimation of stature is a major cause of concern in forensic medicine and forensic anthropology. It becomes difficult to predict the physical identification of an individual when only fragmentary remains of dead body are brought for postmortem. Physical reconstruction from such remains depends upon the fact that various body parts exhibit consistent ratios when compared to total height of a person. Present study is an endeavor to generate formula for estimation of stature from combined length of forearm and hand in Jammu region of India. Results of present study reveal highly significant gender differences between the selected parameters necessitating the need for separate data for two sexes. A positive and significant correlation coefficient of 0.615 and 0.731 has been observed in the males and females in the present study. The regression equation for both sexes has been derived for practical use in anatomical, forensic and archeological investigations.

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Estimation of stature from combined length of forearm and hand in Jammu region of India

Choudhary

Singh

Gupta

2013

International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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“…The same is true for all mass disaster (wars, accidents, terror events and natural disasters), where proper stature estimation is important for identification of the victims 11 .…”

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The Relationship Between Hand Length and Height in Adult Males of North Indian Punjabi Population.

Chawla¹,

Rajkumar²,

Ashoka³

et al. 2013

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INTRODUCTION:Stature of an individual is an inherent characteristic, the estimate of which is considered to be an important assessment in identification of unknown human remains 12 .The stature prediction occupies relatively a central position both in anthropological research and in the identification necessitated by the medical jurisprudence or by medico legal experts. Estimation of stature of an individual from the skeletal material or from the mutilated or amputated limbs or parts of limbs has obvious significance in the personal identification in the events of the murders, accidents or natural disasters mainly concerns with forensic identification analysis 8 . Whether this is true for the North Indian Punjabi male population is not known till date. AIMS: The present study was done with an aim to establish relationship between height and hand length in adult males of north Indian Punjabi population, as it is not seen in the accessible literature till date to the best of our knowledge. MATERIALS AND METHOD: Height of 150 healthy male students between 18 to 25 years of age was measured with the help of an anthropometric rod. The height of all the students was measured in anatomical position keeping all the subjects erect. The height measured was vertical distance from the vertex to floor. Hand length is the direct linear distance between the distal wrist crease and the distal ends of most anterior projecting point i.e., tip of the middle finger. It is also the distance between midpoint of line joining the two stylion and Dactylion of middle finger. Result: -A positive correlation between height and hand length was observed and it was statistically significant. Regression equation for height estimation was formulated using hand length. For statistical analysis IBM (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) SPSS + Version 20 was used. The mean difference of the height was 1773.273 ± 78.832 mm and Hand length (Right and Left) were 196.373 ± 11.515 and 196.267 ± 11.546 mm respectively. CONCLUSION: The height and hand length measurements were statistically significant (p<0.0001). Hand length is a good predictor of height. The correlation between hand length and height (r=0.654; p<0.0001) was high and significant in all the subjects. The findings could also be of practical

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“…The long bones of the body have been used to estimate stature [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and results obtained were reliable.…”

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Lower Extremity Measurements in the Prediction of Body Height of the Igbos

Jervas¹,

Ti²,

Gc³

et al. 2016

Anthropol Open J

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Estimation of Stature from Upper Extremity

Cited by 64 publications

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Estimation of stature from combined length of forearm and hand in Jammu region of India

Estimation of stature from combined length of forearm and hand in Jammu region of India

The Relationship Between Hand Length and Height in Adult Males of North Indian Punjabi Population.

Lower Extremity Measurements in the Prediction of Body Height of the Igbos

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