Comparison of Body Height and Percutaneous Femur Length among North Indian Students

Identification of any victim is very important for any crime investigation. It is important in mass disaster or any other situation in which identification is necessary. Stature is one of the important elements of identification.

In this study we try to find the relation between percutaneous femur length and stature along with multiplication factor to reconstruct the stature.

The current study was conducted among 145 medical students during January to March 2013 in Department Of Forensic Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak.

The average of mean femur length in male and female was 41.9 and 42.4 cm respectively. Height of individual male was 4.11 and female is 3.74 times the length of his/her femur length. The correlation coefficients between stature and dimensions of femur were found to be positive and statistically significant.

It means there is a definite relation between height and femur length and if either of the measurement (femur length or total height) is known, the other can be calculated. The results of the present study show that femur dimensions can be used as predictive values for stature estimation by Anthropologists and Forensic Medicine experts.