Prediction of height from percutaneous tibial length amongst Oriya population

Abstract

Establishing individuality on the mutilated part of a dead body is quite a difficult work in forensic medicine. Among the factors required, to establish individuality of an unidentified dead body or any mutilated part of such dead body, height is one of them. In the present work an attempt has been made to calculate the height from the percutaneous tibial length (PCTL) as measured by surface anatomical landmarks that is between the most prominently palpable part of the medial condyle of tibia and tip of the medial malleolus. To find out the relationship of PCTL with that of the height and to evolve a regression equation formula necessary statistical evaluation has been done on the data obtained from 1000 adult individuals comprising of 500 males and 500 females. By using the regression equation formula so derived the height of an individual can be calculated by the help of PCTL, when only the mutilated ley portion is available for autopsy examination.