Hand surface area--do racial differences exist?
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Rajive Mathew Jose1, Deb Kumar Roy, Paul K Wright
1University Hospital of North Durham, Durham, DH1 5TW, UK. rajivemathew@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The patient's own palm is used as a template in assessing small patchy burns and is traditionally believed to be 1% of body surface area. This does alter with the patient's age, sex and BMI and there have been suggestions that it can also differ between ethnic groups. We undertook this study to see if there were any differences in the hand surface area between Caucasians, Orientals and Asians. It was done by tracing the hand outline and calculating the surface area. The study showed that there was no significant difference between the three ethnic groups in terms of hand surface area.
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