ANTHROPOMETRIC ANATOMIZATION OF DISTAL RADIUS USING DIGITAL XRAYS IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION

Abstract

Background: Population specic understanding of distal radius athropometry is indeed an essential factor for managing fractures of distal radius which is most commonly encountered. The primary goal of treatment of distal radius fracture is to obtain an well functioning wrist joint with restored normal anatomy, for which reduction criteria based on western population is being used till now . Hence in this study we analyse the anthropometry of distal end of radius using digital xrays in south Indian population. Hundred pat Materials and Methods: ients with a normal wrist joint attending the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology unit of Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore were included in this study. Plain Radiographs were taken to measure the Radial Inclination, Palmer Tilt, Radial Height and Ulnar Variance and the values were compared with data reported in the literature. The mean value of Radial Inclination(22.54 Results: °±2.18°), Palmer Tilt(12.01°±1.88°), Radial Height(11.30mm±0.30mm), and Ulnar Variance(0.44mm±1.03mm) in our study population differed on comparing with data reported in the literature for Western and other Indian population. This study concludes Conclusion: that signicant differences exist between the values observed in our study population and the values reported in the literature for western population and other Indian population, which can be used as a reference criteria in managing the fracture distal radius among south Indian population.