Foot morphology development with age.
We studied the podogram from both feet in 1676 school-children of both sexes (663 boys and 1013 girls), aged between 3 and 17 a using 3 footprint measures (footprint angle: Clarke [1933]; footprint index of Chippaux [1947] and Smirak [1960]; arch index [Staheli et al. 1987]) and found clear differences according to age. Our findings showed a tendency in both sexes in early childhood to present a low internal arch until the age of 5 and 6a.
Forriol Campos
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Departamento Ciencias Morfológicas y Cirugía, Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Maiques
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Dankloff
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Gomez Pellico
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D000293:Adolescent; D000375:Aging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics