Morphometric study of ear lobule in northwest Indian male subjects

Anatomical Science International

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 98-104

  Sharma, Anshu ^a,b   Sidhu, Navjot Kaur ^a   Sharma, Mahesh Kumar ^a   Kapoor, Kanchan ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Ear lobule; Pendulous; Root attachment; Square; Tapering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR LOBE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; INDIAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR AURICLE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 34249785107     PISSN: 14476959     EISSN: 1447073X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-073X.2007.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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