Quantitative Analysis of Digitopalmar Dermatoglyphics in Fifty Female Psoriatic Monoarthritis Patients
: By the quantitative dermatoglyhic analysis we have made research in 25 variables in number of epidermal ridges on palms and fingers in fifty female psoriatic monoarthritis patients: on all ten fingers, on five fingers separately and their sum all together, between triradii a-b, b-c and c-d on one and both palms, their sum on one and both palms and atd angles on one and both hands and their sum all together in degrees. Obtained date were compared with control group of 200 healthy women from the Zagreb area in Croatia. Statistically significant difference to control by t-test, we have found in 15 variables in the sense of increasing number of epidermal ridges: on each of ten fingers, their sum on five and all together both , then between triradius b-c of both palms and all together between triradii a-b, b-c and c-d on right palm then decreasing atd angle on left palm in degrees. Accordingly a polygenetic system identical in some loci to polygenetic system predisposing to female psoriatic monoarthritis susceptibility might be found responsible for dermatoglyphic pattern development.