Prediction of height from percutaneous tibial length amongst Oriya population

Establishing individuality on the mutilated part of a dead body is quite a difficult work in forensic medicine. Among the factors required, to establi sh individuality of an unidentified dead body or any mutilated part of such dead body, height is one of them. In the present work an attempt has been made to calculate the height from the percutaneous tibial length (PCTL) as measured by surface anatomical landmarks that is between the most prominent ly palpable part of the medial condyle of tibia and tip of the medial malle olus. To find out the relationship of PCTL with that of the height and to e volve a regression equation formula necessary statistical evaluation has be en done on the data obtained from 1000 adult individuals comprising of 500 males and 500 females. By using the regression equation formula so derived the height of an individual can be calculated by the help of PCTL, when onl y the mutilated ley portion is available for autopsy examination. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.