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Canthal and Cephalic and Indexes of Children with Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease in Port‐Harcourt
Author(s) -
Ligha Aloysius
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.697.3
Subject(s) - port harcourt , medicine , pediatrics , disease , surgery , socioeconomics , sociology
This research was conducted in view of the importance of anthropmetric indices of the head and face in forensic medicine, surgery, paediatrics and medical imaging. this study was put forward to determine some of the effects of chronic diseases on head and face of children with homozygous sickle cell disease. A comparative study on canthal and cephalic indexes were carried on 100 patients, 54 male and 46 females who are homozygous for sickle cell anaemia, who attended the sickle cell clinic at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital between the ages of 3‐17years. The same was done for 500 growing children, 291 males and 209 females between 3‐17years. The head length, head breadth, inner and outer canthal distances were measured. the results showed a mean cephalic index value of 79.89± 0.87 for the normal growing children while that of the sickle cell children was 79.54± 2.14 which is not statistically significant (p>0.05). The mean canthal index for healthy children was 35.16±1.01 as against 37.28±1.65 for sickle cell children, which is statistically significant. This result determined the possible effects of chronic diseases such as sickle cell anaemia on the diversity of head and face shapes in children.