Anthropometric study of the bicipital groove in Kolkata based population and its clinical implication

Abstract

The knowledge of the humeral morphology is an important tool in determination of the prosthetic size, its positioning and also its design. Reconstructive surgery of upper end of humerus requires measurement of intertubercular sulcus. In this descriptive and cross sectional study it was attempt to study the clinical correlation of length, depth and width of the bicipital groove with antero-posterior and transverse diameters of surgical neck of the dry humeri, for their use in the betterment of human humeral prosthesis. The study was conducted on 100 adult dry intact human humerii collected from different medical colleges of Kolkata in the department of Anatomy, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata. This study analysis was done in SPSS 23 Software. Independent sample-‘t’ test was used for statistical analysis. P-value <0.05 was considered to be significant. The difference of anthropometric dimensions of left humeral bicipital groove are more significant as compared to right. There is strong statistical correlation between length of Bicipital Groove vs Total Length of Humerus, Width of Bicipital Groove vs. Transverse Diameter at surgical neck To conclude, with minor differences from previous similar studies the present study is noteworthy in the field of prosthetic limb manufacture.