Article
Average African American three-dimensional computed tomography skull images: the potential clinical importance of ethnicity and sex.
The Journal of craniofacial surgery - 1 Jul 1998
Dean D, Bookstein F L, Koneru S, Lee J H, Kamath J, Cutting C B, Hans M, Goldberg J
Abstract excerpt
The production of average 'normative' three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography surface images of the bony skull has only recently been explored. The authors wish to determine the effect of using sex- and ethnicity-specific adult average 3D skull images for comparisons with patient images at var...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Black People
- Cephalometry
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Reference Standards
- Sex Characteristics
- Skull
