title: Auriculocephalic index: a new anthropometric index for syndrome delineation.
abstract: We describe a new anthropometric index, the "auriculocephalic index." It results from the ratio between the length of auricle and the corresponding preauricular head height. The index is independent of sex and of age. Normally it ranges between 0.25 (-2s) and 0.33 (+2s). In syndrome delineation it may help to diagnose more precisely large or small auricles as phenogenetic variants.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neonatology and Clinical Genetics, Children's University Hospital, Rostock, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pelz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000886:Anthropometry; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004431:Ear, External / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012015:Reference Standards; D012016:Reference Values; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013577:Syndrome