title: Paradoxical bilateral asymmetry in bone size and bone mass in the hand.
abstract: Among 227 chronic renal disease patients, micrometer caliper radiogrammetric measurements of the second metacarpal at midshaft showed the right metacarpal to be larger (with greater bone area) and with a greater cortical area than the left second metacarpal, both in 208 right-handed individuals and in 19 left-handed individuals. This direction of asymmetry was individually characteristic of the majority of individuals, whether right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000473:pathology*