title: Determination of stature from skeletal and skull measurements by CT scan evaluation.
abstract: The aim of this article is to find a correlation between height and femur/skull measurements through Computed Tomography (CT) scans and derive regression equations for total skeletal height estimation in the Caucasian population. We selected 200 Caucasian patients from March 2010 to July 2011 who had to perform a CT scan for cancer restaging. The mean age is 64.5 years. Both sexes are represented by the same number of persons. Patients have executed a total body CT scan with contrast; once scan accomplished, we measured height through a digital scales. We analyzed CT scans of each patient, obtaining multiplanar reconstruction in sagittal and coronal planes with 1mm of thickness, and we measured 10 diameters of skull and femur. Then we performed a single and a multiple regression analysis considering the three diameters that better correlated with height. The skeletal diameters with the highest correlation coefficients with stature were femur lengths, length of cranial base (Ba-N), and distance from the posterior extremity of the cranial base to the inferior point of the nasal bone (Ba-NB). Although both femur and skull are skeletal segments used for stature estimation, in our sample femur gave stronger correlation with height than skull. h=35.7+1.48·BaN+2.32·BaNB+2.53·FEM and h=3.06·FEM+72.6 are the formulae that provided the most accurate stature assessment using multiple and single regression analysis respectively.
authors: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro Del Portillo 200, 00100 Rome, Italy. f.giurazza@unicampus.it
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Giurazza
authors: Riccardo
authors: R
authors: Del Vescovo
authors: Emiliano
authors: E
authors: Schena
authors: Sofia
authors: S
authors: Battisti
authors: Roberto Luigi
authors: RL
authors: Cazzato
authors: Francesco Rosario
authors: FR
authors: Grasso
authors: Sergio
authors: S
authors: Silvestri
authors: Vincenzo
authors: V
authors: Denaro
authors: Bruno Beomonte
authors: BB
authors: Zobel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001827:Body Height; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018732:Forensic Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D044465:White People