Determination of Gestational Age by Measurements of Hand-A Morphometric Study in Human Foetuses
Asian Resonance (P: ISSN No. 0976-8602 RNI No.UPENG/2012/426228 VOL.-III, ISSUE-IV, October-2014 E: ISSN No. 2349-9443 ) Abstract Mohd. Arshad Senior Resident , Deptt of Anatomy, JN Medical College , A.M.U., Aligarh Farah Ghaus Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy , JNMC, AMU, Aligarh. Nazim Nasir Assistant Professor, King Khalid University, ABHA, KSA M.Tariq Zaidi Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy , JNMC, AMU, Aligarh. Determination of gestational age is important in civil and criminal cases. Though a reasonable assessment of gestational age can be made by measuring physical parameters such as crown-heel length, weight of foetus and by noting morphological features, organ development and appearance of ossification centres, an alternative parameter is desirable in some instances. In this study we directly correlate growth of different foetal hand parameters with gestational age. 30 formalin fixed human foetuses were obtained from M...