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Background: Sutural bones are supranumary bones occurring along the sutures and completely surrounded bysutures of the skull. Their number, morphology and location in skull vary in skulls. The knowledge of these bonesis imperative in surgery, medicolegal cases involving child abuse or fracture of skulls and for anthropologicidentification of human populations. This study was undertaken to examine incidence and pattern of distributionof sutural bones in dry skulls from Eastern India and compare the findings with similar studies across the world.Materials and Method: 180 dry crania were identified as male or female skulls and studied for the incidence andpattern of distribution of sutural bones. Also the Cephalic Index was measured for finding its correlation withthe number of sutural bones appearing in a skull.Results: 124 skulls were identified as male and 56 as female skulls. Overall incidence of sutural bone occurrencewas found to be 72.28% which was essentially similar across sexes. The most common sites for sutural bones,in descending order of occurrence, were found to be parieto-occipital suture, asterion, pterion and lambda.Bregma was the least common site where no sutural bone was encountered. A highly statistically significantfinding was in regard to laterality of sutural bone occurrence. Sutural bones occurring along coronal, parietotemporal, parieto-mastoid, occipito-mastoid sutures and pterion exhibited more than 80% tendency towardsunilateral occurrence while those occurring at asterion exhibited around 70% tendency towards unilateraloccurrence. All these findings, although displayed variable degree of sexual dimorphism, were statisticallyinsignificant for variation among sexes. No correlation between the number of sutural bones with cephalic indexwas found.Conclusion: The findings of this study are in agreement with the findings of many similar suitably poweredstudies across the world.
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INTRODUCTION The acetabulum of the hip bone is an important parameter for determination of sex.Morphometry of hip bone is of interest to anatomist, forensic experts and anthropologist. The parameters are also of clinical importance for orthopaedic surgeons. AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study is to find the Diameter of acetabulum, Depth of acetabulum, Diameter of acetabular Notch and Shape of the anterior ridge of the acetabulum in North Indian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS 57 human ossified adult hip bones were includedfrom the Anatomy and forensic Department in this study. After determination of sex, the measurements were taken with the help of digital vernier calipers and a metallic scale. RESULTS In this study the measurements of diameter of acctabulum is larger in female in both sides than that of male and significant statistically. The Acetabular Depth in female is more in left side but slightly less in right side than male. The Acetabular Diameter and Acetabular Depth in left side is more than right side. The anterior acetabular ridge in this study is more (43.9%) of curved type. CONCLUSION Morphometric study will help detection of disputed sex by Forensic Experts &Orthopedic Surgeons for planning the total hip replacement. The Acetabular Depth in female is more in left side but slightly less in right side than male. The measurements are more in left side than that of right side.
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Aim: To identify the Stature from the cephalo-facial dimension (facial height) in Indian females.Materials and Methods: A stadiometer was used to measure the stature, and the facial height was taken byutilizing a vernier caliper, in 43 female medical students. To know about the significance and correlation, thedata were analysed statistically.Results: Mean stature and the mean facial height were found to be 158.93±11.06 cm and 10.39±0.83 cm respectively.P value was less than 0.001 and Pearson’s coefficient obtained was 0.93. Hence, there is found to be a significantpositive correlation between stature and facial height in Indian females.Conclusion: Estimation of stature from the facial height could be performed where only unknown head and faceare brought for anthropometric examinations.
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Renal size like length measured by ultrasound and volume measured by CT could be used to monitor the progressof chronic kidney diseases. Multi-Slice Computed Tomography (MSCT) has a growing importance in the evaluationof Kidney morphology and its vessels. But there is a risk of contrast media-induced nephropathy and exposure toradiation. Volume measured by CT is better than the length measured by CT.