Open AccessPectoralis Minor Index: Does Ethnicity Hold Relevance? Estimation of Pectoralis Minor Length in the Indian Population and Its Correlation with Hand Length
Author(s) -
Amit Sharma,
Ankur Sharma,
Abhishek Mishra,
Dhruv Maini,
Padmanee Sharma,
Tarun Verma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.1007/s43465-019-00003-7
Subject(s) - medicine , cutoff , population , correlation , orthodontics , mathematics , geometry , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
Pectoralis Minor Index (PMI) is a proposed parameter to evaluate the pectoralis minor length (PML), eliminating the effect of subject's variability of height. Neither a PMI standard value nor any cutoff value to label a shortened pectoralis minor (PM) has been accepted yet, which can be applied to every individual. Moreover, the length of the PM has never been correlated to any fixed reference in the body. Hence, we estimated the PML in the Indian population and investigated its correlation to the individual's hand length.