Estimation of Stature from Head Length in Adults in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Stature is the height of the person in upright posture. It is one of the most important elements in the identification of an individual. In the recent times, due to natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and man-made disasters like bomb blasts, terror attacks, wars, plane crashes, mass accidents and other accidents, the need of establishing the identity of the person has become an important necessity for both legal and humanitarian reasons. Many a times, only skull is brought for medico legal identification, this necessitates to correlate the metric traits of the skeletal remains with the stature. The present study was conducted on 300 individuals in a tertiary care hospital of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. The study showed a significant co-relation between head length and stature.