A new anthropometric measurement of penile length and its relation to second and fourth digital lengths;Penis uzunluǧu ile ikinci ve dördüncü parmak uzunluǧu ilişkisini gösteren yeni bir antropometrik ölçüm

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 539-544

  Davarci, Mürsel ^a   Gökçe, Ahmet ^a   Yalçinkaya, Fatih Rüştü ^a   Kaya, Yusuf Selim ^a   Turhan, Ebru ^a   Tutanç, Murat ^a   Doǧramaci, Yunus ^a   Balbay, Mevlana Derya ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Digit length; Penis size; Somatometric parameter

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGIT LENGTH; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PENILE LENGTH; PENIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 84859741313     PISSN: 13000144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/sag-1103-32     Document Type: Article

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