Hand surface area--do racial differences exist?
Burns
; 32(2): 216-7, 2006 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16448774
ABSTRACT
The patient's own palm is used as a template in assessing small patchy burns and is traditionally believed to be 1% of body surface area. This does alter with the patient's age, sex and BMI and there have been suggestions that it can also differ between ethnic groups. We undertook this study to see if there were any differences in the hand surface area between Caucasians, Orientals and Asians. It was done by tracing the hand outline and calculating the surface area. The study showed that there was no significant difference between the three ethnic groups in terms of hand surface area.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Racial Groups
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Asian People
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White People
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Hand
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Burns
Year:
2006
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom