Hand surface area—Do racial differences exist?

The patient's own palm is used as a template in assessing small patchy burns and is traditionally believed to be 1% of body surface area. This does alter with the patient's age, sex and BMI and there have been suggestions that it can also differ between ethnic groups. We undertook this stu...

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Published inBurns Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 216 - 217
Main Authors Jose, Rajive Mathew, Roy, Deb Kumar, Wright, Paul K., Erdmann, Matt
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2006
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Anthropometry
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Body Mass Index
Body Surface Area
Continental Population Groups
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Hand - anatomy & histology
Hand surface area
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Racial difference
Hand surface area
Racial difference
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Summary:The patient's own palm is used as a template in assessing small patchy burns and is traditionally believed to be 1% of body surface area. This does alter with the patient's age, sex and BMI and there have been suggestions that it can also differ between ethnic groups. We undertook this study to see if there were any differences in the hand surface area between Caucasians, Orientals and Asians. It was done by tracing the hand outline and calculating the surface area. The study showed that there was no significant difference between the three ethnic groups in terms of hand surface area.
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ISSN:0305-4179
1879-1409
DOI:10.1016/j.burns.2005.09.003