Dermatoglyphics in Medical DisordersSpringer Science & Business Media, 6 dec 2012 - 258 pagina's The skin on the fingertips and palmar and plantar surfaces of man is not smooth. It is grooved by curious ridges, which form a variety of configurations. These ridge configurations have attracted the at tention of laymen for millenia. They have also evoked the serious interest of scientists for more than three centuries. The anatomist Bidloo provided a description of ridge detail in the seventeenth cen tury. Since then, additional information has been added by anthro pologists, biologists, and geneticists. For the last century, the fact that each individual's ridge configurations are unique has been uti lized as a means of personal identification especially by law enforce ment officials. Widespread medical interest in epidermal ridges de veloped only in the last several decades when it became apparent that many patients with chromosomal aberrations had unusual ridge formations. Inspection of skin ridges, therefore, promised to provide a simple, inexpensive means for determining whether a given patient had a particular chromosomal defect. However, the promise was only partially fulfilled because of the inherent variability of skin ridge configurations. It was possible to draw conclusions about ridge ab normalities in groups of patients but not always in a given individual. Patients and clinicians became somewhat disenchanted with the clinical value of studying ridges. |
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Methods of Recording Dermatoglyphics | 13 |
SPECIAL METHODS | 20 |
Dermatoglyphic Pattern Configurations | 27 |
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS | 59 |
DERMATOGLYPHIC TOPOLOGY | 70 |
FREQUENCY OF DERMATOGLYPHIC TRAITS | 77 |
Congenital Malformations of Dermatoglyphics | 89 |
Flexion Creases | 103 |
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a-b ridge count abnormal anomalies Anthropol bilaterally brachydactyly classification congenital cri-du-chat syndrome Cummins and Midlo decreased dermal ridges dermatoglyphic analysis dermatoglyphic data dermatoglyphic features dermatoglyphic patterns diagnosis digital triradii Distal axial triradius distally displaced females fibular fifth digit Figure finger ridge flexion crease hallucal area hand Holt Holt-Oram syndrome hypoplasia hypothenar area hypothenar pattern increased frequency increased in frequency individuals Klinefelter syndrome Klinefelter's syndrome LEFT RIGHT main lines males malformations mean TFRC medical disorders method Morphol normal observed pads palmar crease Palmar patterns patients pattern area pattern intensity pattern types Pediatr percent phalanges plantar proximal Purvis-Smith radial loops reported ridge configurations ridge dissociation ridged skin rubella Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome sex chromosomes simian crease simian line Single transverse palmar Sydney line syndactyly syndrome and controls Table TFRC thenar area thumb tibial toes toglyphic transverse palmar crease trisomy 18 Turner syndrome ulnar loops usually volar white lines whorls