Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue: 2

Stature Estimation from Percutaneous Measurement of Femur Length

  • Author:
  • Charak Sangwan1, Akash Deep Aggarwal2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 24 to 25

1Assistant Professor, (Forensic Medicine), Govt. Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India

2Associate Professor, (Forensic Medicine), Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India

Online published on 5 October, 2016.

Abstract

This study aimed to reconstruct stature among male and female Punjabi community of Malwa region using percutaneous measurement of femur length, for estimating the stature, femur length was recorded on each subject using the standard measurement techniques. The data composed of 400 Punjabi subjects within the age range of 20–25 years. Multiplication factors and linear regression equations for stature estimation were determined produced using the above mentioned variables.

Keywords

Stature, Punjabi, Multiplication factors